Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 29
De howlin' dog know w'at he sees.
Who acts: De howlin, howlin · What happens: know, see · To what, where: w'at
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: who acts (De howlin, howlin), 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 | De | De | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 howlin | compound |
| 2 | howlin | howlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 howlin | punct |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sees | nsubj |
| 8 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | infinitive | De howlin | w'at | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer w'at=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | present | howlin | w'at not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'at=Stimulus |
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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