Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 4
"You'll fling yo' money away ef you bet on it," responded Uncle Remus. "
Who acts: You, Uncle Remus · What happens: fling, bet, respond · To what, where: yo money, ef · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Uncle Remus), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fling | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fling | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fling | aux |
| 4 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 responded | ccomp |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 money | compound |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 yo | punct |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fling | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fling | advmod |
| 9 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fling | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bet | nsubj |
| 11 | bet | bet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ef | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bet | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fling | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fling | punct |
| 16 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Remus | compound |
| 18 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 responded | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 responded | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling in a quote | future | You | yo money | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent money=Destination ef=Theme | |||
| 2 | bet in a quote | present | you | ef not said here | ef | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ef=Recipient | |||
| 3 | respond speech: other | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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