Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 20
I seed Mr. Fox a comin'!'
Who acts: I · What happens: fox · To what, where: comin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Fox | nsubj |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | nsubj |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | nsubj |
| 4 | Fox | fox | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 comin | det |
| 6 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fox | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 comin | punct |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fox | infinitive | I | a comin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus comin=Experiencer |
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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