Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 107
A pumpkin is an exceedingly awkward thing to carry, and the Irishman had not gone far before he made a misstep, and stumbled.
Who acts: pumpkin, Irishman, negro · What happens: be, carry, not go, make, stumble · To what, where: awkward thing, misstep
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pumpkin, Irishman, negro), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pumpkin | det |
| 2 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 5 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 6 awkward | advmod |
| 6 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gone | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Irishman | det |
| 13 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 gone | advmod |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thing | parataxis |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 gone | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 misstep | det |
| 22 | misstep | misstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stumbled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stumbled | cc |
| 25 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 made | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pumpkin | a awkward thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not go | past · perfect | the Irishman | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | negro | a misstep | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misstep=Product | ||||
| 5 | stumble | participle | negro not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «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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