Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 40
Empty smoke-house makes de pullet holler.
Who acts: Empty smoke house · What happens: make · To what, where: de pullet holler
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 (Empty smoke house), 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 | Empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 smoke | punct |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | nsubj |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 holler | amod |
| 7 | pullet | pullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holler | compound |
| 8 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Empty smoke house | de pullet holler | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holler=Product |
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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