Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 36
Dar's gwineter be a party up at Miss Meadows's,' sezee. '
Who acts: gwineter · What happens: be · To what, where: party
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives 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 (gwineter), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gwineter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dar | case |
| 3 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 party | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 party | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Meadows | case |
| 9 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Meadows | compound |
| 10 | Meadows | Meadows | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 party | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Meadows | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | Dar's gwineter | Miss Meadows's party | 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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