Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 11
"Hit's all des dat away, honey," continued the old man, with the air of one who had just given an important piece of information. "
Who acts: Hit · What happens: continue, give · To what, where: old man, important piece
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hit | punct |
| 2 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hit | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Hit | conj |
| 5 | des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dat | det |
| 6 | dat | that | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 all | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 honey | punct |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hit | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hit | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hit | punct |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 air | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 air | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 given | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 given | aux |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 given | advmod |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 one | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 piece | det |
| 27 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 piece | amod |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 information | case |
| 30 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 piece | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | Hit and honey | the old man | with the air of one | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | a important piece of information | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient piece=Theme |
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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