Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 47
His Sayings I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness II.
Who acts: Church · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Church), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Sayings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 I. | nsubj |
| 3 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Illness | nsubj |
| 4 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 I. | flat |
| 5 | Rober'son | Rober'son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Illness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Rober'son | case |
| 7 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Illness | amod |
| 8 | Illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 8 Illness | flat |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Illness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say | Church | nom saying «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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