Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 82
*1 So far as I know, "Bango" is a meaningless term, introduced on account of its sonorous ruggedness.
Who acts: I, Bango · What happens: know, be, introduce, account · To what, where: meaningless term, account, sonorous ruggedness
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bango), 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 term | discourse |
| 3 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 term | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 term | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bango | punct |
| 10 | Bango | Bango | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 term | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bango | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 term | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 term | det |
| 14 | meaningless | meaningless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 term | amod |
| 15 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 introduced | punct |
| 17 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 term | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 account | case |
| 19 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 introduced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ruggedness | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ruggedness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sonorous | sonorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ruggedness | amod |
| 23 | ruggedness | ruggedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 account | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 term | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Bango | a meaningless term | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | introduce | participle | a meaningless term not said here | account of account's sonorous ruggedness | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | account | account's sonorous ruggedness | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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