Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 61
Uncle Remus preaches to a Convert XVII.
Who acts: Uncle · What happens: preach · To what, where: Convert XVII
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 (Uncle), 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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preaches | nsubj |
| 2 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | preaches | preach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 XVII | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 XVII | det |
| 6 | Convert | convert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 XVII | compound |
| 7 | XVII | xvii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preaches | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 preaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preach speech: other | present | Uncle | a Convert XVII | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to xvii=Recipient |
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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