Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 20
Oh, you oughter drapt roun' 'bout dat time, Brer John Henry.
Who acts: you · What happens: drapt · To what, where: roun
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 drapt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 drapt | nsubj |
| 4 | oughter | oughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 you | flat |
| 5 | drapt | drapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drapt | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 drapt | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 drapt | punct |
| 9 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 10 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | compound |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drapt | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 John | punct |
| 13 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 John | compound |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | appos |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 John | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drapt | present | you | roun | time | tree rules |
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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