Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure, sentence 37
I des call by fer ter bring de news.
Who acts: I, fer ter · What happens: call, bring · To what, where: de news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, fer ter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 call | det |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 5 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ter | amod |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | advcl |
| 8 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 news | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | fer ter | de news | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
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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