Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 20
G'long, chile--jine yo' s'ciety an' be good ter yo'se'f.
What happens: be · To what, where: good ter yo'se'f
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: 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 | G'long | G'long | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chile | punct |
| 3 | chile | chile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 G'long | appos |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 G'long | punct |
| 5 | jine | jine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | compound |
| 6 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 s'ciety | punct |
| 8 | s'ciety | s'ciety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yo | appos |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 yo'se'f | det |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 yo'se'f | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 yo'se'f | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yo'se'f | amod |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yo'se'f | compound |
| 14 | yo'se'f | yo'se'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 s'ciety | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 yo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | a good ter yo'se'f | tree rules |
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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