Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 78
I have adhered to the middle Georgia version, which is characteristic enough.
Who acts: I, middle Georgia version · What happens: adhere, be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, middle Georgia version), 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 adhered | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 adhered | aux |
| 3 | adhered | adhere | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 version | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 version | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 version | compound |
| 7 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 version | compound |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adhered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 characteristic | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 characteristic | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 characteristic | cop |
| 12 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 version | conj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 characteristic | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adhered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adhere | present · perfect | I | to the middle Georgia version | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to version=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the middle Georgia version | characteristic, enough 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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