Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 107
Fus thing you know, he raise up sudden, en say, sezee:
Who acts: you, dat, en · What happens: know, raise up, say · To what, where: Fus thing, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dat, en), 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 | Fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thing | amod |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 raise | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raise | nsubj |
| 7 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 raise | compound:prt |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 raise | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 raise | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sezee | punct |
| 14 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | Fus thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | raise up | present | dat | sudden property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | en | sezee | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sezee=Topic |
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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