Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 49
"Well," says the deer, "if you can make the jaguar carry you, you shall have my daughter."
Who acts: deer, you, jaguar · What happens: say, make, carry, have · To what, where: jaguar, you, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (deer, you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jaguar | det |
| 15 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | parataxis |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the deer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | the jaguar | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | infinitive | the jaguar not said here | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «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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