Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 18
The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow XX.
What happens: fate · To what, where: XX
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fate | det |
| 2 | Fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 XX | case |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jack | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 XX | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Jack | flat |
| 7 | XX | XX | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fate | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fate | Jack Mr.'s XX | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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