Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 36
"Break who?" exclaimed Uncle Remus, with a touch of indignation in his tone--"break who?
Who acts: Uncle Remus, Remus · What happens: break, exclaim, touch, intonate · To what, where: indignation, tone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, Remus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 2 | Break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 Break | obj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Remus | compound |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 touch | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 touch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 touch | det |
| 12 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 indignation | case |
| 14 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tone | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touch | nmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 break | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 break | punct |
| 20 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 break | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | infinitive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | break in a quote | infinitive | Uncle Remus not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Patient | |||||
| 4 | touch | indignation | Remus's tone | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient in=place | |||||
| 5 | intonate | Remus | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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