Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 52
Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.
Who acts: Licker · What happens: talk · To what, where: mighty loud w'en
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 (Licker), 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 | Licker | licker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | nsubj |
| 2 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'en | amod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'en | amod |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 talks | obj |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talks | obj |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jug | amod |
| 9 | fum | fum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 de | compound |
| 10 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jug | compound |
| 11 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Licker | mighty loud w'en | 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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