Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 27
The dialect, it will be observed, is wholly different from that of the Hon.
Who acts: dialect · What happens: observe, be · To what, where: dialect, that
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 (dialect), 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 dialect | det |
| 2 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 different | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dialect | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 observed | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 observed | aux:pass |
| 7 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dialect | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dialect | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 10 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 11 different | advmod |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 different | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Hon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hon | det |
| 16 | Hon | Hon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 that | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 different | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | future · passive | the dialect not said here | dialect | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the dialect | that | different, wholly property | 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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