Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 14
We er gittin' up a Good Tempeler's lodge, an' we like ter git yo' name."
Who acts: We, git yo · What happens: er, like, name · To what, where: gittin, name
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 er | nsubj |
| 2 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 gittin | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lodge | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Tempeler | det |
| 7 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Tempeler | amod |
| 8 | Tempeler | tempeler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Tempeler | case |
| 10 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 like | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 er | conj |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 git | compound |
| 17 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yo | compound |
| 18 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 yo | case |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 like | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er | present | We | gittin | up a Good Tempeler's lodge | tree rules | |||
| 2 | like | present | we | git yo's name | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot name=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | git yo | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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