Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 47
This is almost identical with a story quoted by Mr. Smith, where the jaguar is about to marry the deer's daughter.
Who acts: This, jaguar · What happens: be, quote, marry · To what, where: story, daughter
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 (This, jaguar), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 identical | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 identical | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 identical | advmod |
| 4 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identical | obl |
| 8 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 story | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Smith | case |
| 10 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Smith | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 quoted | obl:agent |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 about | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 about | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jaguar | det |
| 15 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 about | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 about | cop |
| 17 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Smith | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 about | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deer | det |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 deer | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marry | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 identical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | with a story; almost, identical property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | quote speech: other | participle | a story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the jaguar | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | the jaguar not said here | the deer's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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