Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 9
Much's I kin do ter keep de bref in my own body."
Who acts: Much · What happens: kin, keep · To what, where: de bref, own body
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 (Much), 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 | Much | much | PRON | PronType=Ind | 4 kin | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Much | case |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kin | nsubj |
| 4 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | compound |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kin | conj |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 bref | compound |
| 9 | bref | bref | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 body | amod |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kin | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kin | present | Much | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | present · do-support | Much not said here | de bref | my own body | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bref=Theme in body=Location |
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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