Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 20
"Was the Bear's head sure enough swelled, Uncle Remus?"
What happens: be, swell · To what, where: Uncle Remus · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 4 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Bear | case |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sure | compound |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 swelled | advmod |
| 9 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swelled | punct |
| 11 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Remus | compound |
| 12 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 swelled | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swell in a quote | past | Uncle Remus | enough property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient remus=Extent |
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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