Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 41
"Mars John ain't live long ez I is," said Uncle Remus, by way of comment. "
Who acts: Mars John, Uncle Remus · What happens: not be, be, say · 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 (Mars John, 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 | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 2 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 John | compound |
| 3 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ez | advmod |
| 8 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 live | ccomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ez | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ez | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Remus | compound |
| 15 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 comment | case |
| 20 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Mars John | live property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | ez, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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