Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 7
You er talkin' now!" came from several of his hearers.
Who acts: You · What happens: er, come · To what, where: talkin, several
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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 er | nsubj |
| 2 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | talkin | talkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 talkin | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 er | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 er | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 several | case |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hearers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hearers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 several | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er | present | You | talkin | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | You not said here | several | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from several=Initial_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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