Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 67
It would be hard to say with the material that we now have.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: material · 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 (we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | cop |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 say | mark |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | csubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 material | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 material | det |
| 9 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 material | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | with the material | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with material=Manner | |||||
| 3 | have | present | we | the material | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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