Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 12
You been runnin' roun' here sassin' atter me a mighty long time, but I speck you done come ter de een' er de row.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: runnin, speck, do, come · To what, where: roun, you, er
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | 3 runnin | nsubj |
| 2 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 runnin | aux |
| 3 | runnin | runnin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 roun | punct |
| 5 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runnin | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 roun | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 runnin | advmod |
| 8 | sassin | sassin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runnin | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 atter | punct |
| 10 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sassin | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 atter | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 runnin | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speck | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 speck | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 speck | nsubj |
| 19 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 runnin | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 speck | obj |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 speck | advcl |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 done | xcomp |
| 23 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 een | compound |
| 24 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 ter | flat:foreign |
| 25 | een | een | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 er | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 25 een | case |
| 27 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 row | compound |
| 29 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 er | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 runnin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | runnin | participle · progressive | You | roun | here | time | tree rules | ||
| 2 | speck | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | participle | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | I not said here | ter een's er and de row | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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