Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 6
You ain't never seed no Jacky-my-lanterns, is you, honey?"
Who acts: Jacky · What happens: be · To what, where: you
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 (Jacky), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seed | advmod |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 seed | advmod |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 you | det |
| 7 | Jacky | Jacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 you | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 lanterns | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lanterns | nmod:poss |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 my | punct |
| 11 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Jacky | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 you | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 you | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honey | punct |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seed | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 honey | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 honey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jacky and my lanterns | you | 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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