Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 18
In co'se you knows w'at kinder wedder you wants.
Who acts: you · What happens: know, want · To what, where: w'at kinder wedder, co'se
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 co'se | case |
| 2 | co'se | co'se | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wedder | compound |
| 6 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 wedder | amod |
| 7 | wedder | wedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wants | nsubj |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wedder | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | w'at kinder wedder | co'se | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wedder=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | want | present | you | w'at kinder wedder not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wedder=Theme |
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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