Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 20
The book was mine, but now you have made it yours, both sap and pith.
Who acts: book, you · What happens: be, make · To what, where: mine, book
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 (book, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 made | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 mine | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sap | punct |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sap | det |
| 15 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pith | cc |
| 17 | pith | pith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sap | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the book | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | you | book | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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