Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 23
"Dis look like mighty nice game, en Brer Fox 'greed.
Who acts: Dis · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dis), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 game | case |
| 5 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 game | amod |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 game | amod |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 game | conj |
| 10 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 greed | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Brer | flat |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 Brer | case |
| 13 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | Dis | like mighty nice game and en Brer's greed | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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