Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 40

"Papa says there ain't any witches," the little boy interrupted.

Who acts: Papa · What happens: say, interrupt · To what, where: little boy · 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 (Papa), 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 says	punct
2	Papa	Papa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 says	advmod
5	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 ai	advmod
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 witches	det
8	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ai	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 boy	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 witches	conj
14	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 boy	acl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Papa			there			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	interrupt	participle		the little boy not said here					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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