Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 6
You k'n go roun' yer an' sass deze w'ite people, an' maybe dey'll stan' it, but w'en you come a-slingin' yo' jaw at a man w'at wuz gray w'en de fahmin' days gin out, you better go an' git yo' hide greased."
Who acts: You, dey, days, git yo · What happens: go, stan, come, gin out, grease · To what, where: roun, w'en, gray w'en
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dey, days, git yo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | k'n | k'n | CCONJ | _ | 3 go | cc |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 roun | punct |
| 6 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 9 | sass | sass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deze | compound |
| 10 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 w'ite | compound |
| 11 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | compound |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 an | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 people | appos |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 stan | punct |
| 16 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 19 stan | advmod |
| 17 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stan | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stan | aux |
| 19 | stan | stan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 an | parataxis |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 it | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stan | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 24 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stan | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 jaw | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 slingin | punct |
| 29 | slingin | slingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jaw | compound |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 yo | punct |
| 31 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 slingin | appos |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 yo | punct |
| 33 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 w'en | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 w'en | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 w'at | compound |
| 37 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wuz | compound |
| 38 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gray | compound |
| 39 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 w'en | compound |
| 40 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gin | obl |
| 41 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 40 w'en | flat:foreign |
| 42 | fahmin | fahmin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 days | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 42 fahmin | case |
| 44 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 gin | nsubj |
| 45 | gin | gin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | parataxis |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 gin | compound:prt |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 go | punct |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 go | nsubj |
| 49 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 you | xcomp |
| 50 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 gin | conj |
| 51 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 greased | det |
| 52 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 57 greased | punct |
| 53 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 yo | compound |
| 54 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 greased | nsubj |
| 55 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 57 greased | punct |
| 56 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 greased | nsubj |
| 57 | greased | grease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 go | advcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | You | roun | yer obl:unmarked | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme | |||
| 2 | stan | future | dey | roun | maybe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | present | you | w'en | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gin out | present | fahmin's days | a gray w'en | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grease | past | git yo | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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