Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 14
Deze," he continued, dividing the cakes into two equal parts--"dese I'll tackle now, en dese I'll lay by fer Sunday.
Who acts: Deze, I · What happens: continue, divide, tackle, lay · To what, where: cakes, two equal parts, dese, en dese
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deze, 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 | Deze | Deze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Deze | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dividing | punct |
| 7 | dividing | divide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 continued | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cakes | det |
| 9 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dividing | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 parts | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 parts | nummod |
| 12 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 parts | amod |
| 13 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dividing | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 dese | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 dese | punct |
| 16 | dese | dese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 parts | appos |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tackle | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tackle | aux |
| 19 | tackle | tackle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dese | acl:relcl |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 tackle | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dese | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dese | compound |
| 23 | dese | dese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dese | conj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 lay | aux |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 dese | acl:relcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Sunday | case |
| 28 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 Sunday | amod |
| 29 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | past | Deze | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | divide in a quote | gerund | Deze not said here | the cakes | two equal parts | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | |||
| 3 | tackle | future | I | dese and en dese not said here | now | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dese=Theme | |||
| 4 | lay | future | I | en dese not said here | sunday | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dese=Result |
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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