Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 3

Ole man Know-All died las' year.

Who acts: Ole man · What happens: know, die · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ole man), 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	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 man	amod
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Know	nsubj
3	Know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
5	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 died	advmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Know	ccomp
7	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 year	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 las	case
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 Know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	infinitive	Ole man						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	past					year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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