Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 19
"Do you reckon they have been riding Charley?" inquired the little boy.
Who acts: you, stirrups, little boy · What happens: reckon, ride, inquire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, stirrups, little boy), 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 | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckon | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 riding | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 riding | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 riding | aux |
| 8 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reckon | advcl |
| 9 | Charley | Charley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Charley | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Charley | punct |
| 12 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 riding | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inquired | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ride in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | stirrups = stirrup | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the little boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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