Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 27
"Uncle Remus, what are witches like?"
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: be · To what, where: witches
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 (Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 2 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Remus | compound |
| 3 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 witches | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 witches | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witches | cop |
| 7 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Remus | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 witches | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Remus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Uncle Remus and witches | witches | tree rules |
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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