Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 47
Meller mush-million hollers at you fum over de fence.
Who acts: you · What happens: fum · To what, where: de fence
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 (you), 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 | Meller | Meller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hollers | nsubj |
| 2 | mush | mush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hollers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 million | punct |
| 4 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hollers | nummod |
| 5 | hollers | holler | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 fum | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fum | nsubj |
| 8 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hollers | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 de | advmod |
| 10 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fence | amod |
| 11 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fum | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hollers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fum | present | you | de fence | 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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