Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 110
"'Hit look like blood,' sezee, en den he laft.
Who acts: shinin · What happens: hit, look, laft · To what, where: sezee
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 (shinin), 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 | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hit | punct |
| 3 | Hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 look | advcl |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sezee | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sezee | punct |
| 9 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 den | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 den | compound |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sezee | appos |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laft | nsubj |
| 14 | laft | laft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 den | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | look in a quote | present | sezee | like blood | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | laft in a quote | shinin | tree rules |
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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