Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 24
Colt in de barley-patch kick high.
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kick | case |
| 3 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kick | amod |
| 4 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 patch | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 barley | punct |
| 6 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kick | compound |
| 7 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Colt | nmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kick | amod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Colt | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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