Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 15
He's a gwineter fix um up so you kin have any kinder wedder w'at you want widout totin' her home."
Who acts: dat, you · What happens: fix up, have, want · To what, where: um, kinder wedder w'at, widout totin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fix | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gwineter | det |
| 4 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | advcl |
| 6 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 fix | compound:prt |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | kin | kin | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 w'at | det |
| 13 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 w'at | amod |
| 14 | wedder | wedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 w'at | compound |
| 15 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 18 | widout | widout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 totin | compound |
| 19 | totin | totin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 totin | punct |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 want | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix up | present | dat | um | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent um=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | you | any kinder wedder w'at | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Patient | |||||
| 3 | want | present | you | widout totin | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent totin=Theme home=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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