Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 23
"De nex' year hit pass same like t'er one.
Who acts: nex year · What happens: hit, pass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nex year), 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 nex | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nex | compound |
| 3 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 year | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 nex | punct |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hit | nsubj |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hit | ccomp |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pass | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | t'er | t'er | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pass | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | past | nex year | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | present | nex year not said here | like one; same property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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