Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 68
Jam de shovel in de fier.
Who acts: Jam · What happens: shovel · To what, where: de fier
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 (Jam), 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 | Jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shovel | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shovel | aux |
| 3 | shovel | shovel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fier | case |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 fier | compound |
| 6 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shovel | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shovel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shovel | Jam | de fier | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in fier=Trajectory |
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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