Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 82
So he call: 'Well, B'er Cooter, is you ready?
Who acts: Cooter, B'er · What happens: call, be · 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 (Cooter, B'er), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 call | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | advcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 13 ready | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | B'er | B'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | Cooter | cooter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 B'er | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 B'er | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Cooter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | B'er | ready property | 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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