Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 79
You run ten mile on land, and I will run ten mile on de water!'
Who acts: You, I · What happens: run · To what, where: ten mile, land, de water
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 run | nsubj |
| 2 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mile | nummod |
| 4 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 run | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 run | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 run | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 run | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 run | conj |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 mile | nummod |
| 13 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 run | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 water | compound |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 run | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 run | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | You | ten mile | land | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mile=Theme on land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run | future | I | ten mile | de water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mile=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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