Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 83
*2 The sword and belt in the constellation of Orion.
What happens: constellate · To what, where: Orion
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: 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 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 sword | discourse |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 belt | cc |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 constellation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 constellation | det |
| 9 | constellation | constellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belt | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Orion | case |
| 11 | Orion | Orion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 constellation | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constellate | Orion | nom constellation «cognition 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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