Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 4
But, as frequently happens on such occasions, I am at a loss for a word.
Who acts: I · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: such occasions, loss
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 loss | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 happens | mark |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 5 happens | advmod |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 loss | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 occasions | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 occasions | amod |
| 8 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happens | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 loss | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 loss | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 loss | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 loss | det |
| 14 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loss | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | I not said here | such occasions | frequently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on occasion=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | a loss | for a word | 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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