Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 7
Pears unto me dat you all chu'ch deacons settin' up mighty late deze col' nights.
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: 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 | Pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nights | nsubj |
| 2 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Pears | nmod |
| 4 | dat | dat | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 nights | nmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 settin | det |
| 7 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deacons | compound |
| 8 | deacons | deacon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settin | compound |
| 9 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nights | nsubj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 settin | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 mighty | advmod |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 col | amod |
| 13 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 col | amod |
| 14 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 col | compound |
| 15 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nights | compound |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 col | punct |
| 17 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 nights | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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