Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 6
I wants money right now fer ter git a pint er meal."
Who acts: I · What happens: want · To what, where: money
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 fer | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fer | advmod |
| 6 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 git | amod |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 git | compound |
| 8 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 meal | det |
| 10 | pint | pint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 er | compound |
| 11 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meal | compound |
| 12 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 git | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | money | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme git=Attribute |
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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