Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 14
I know'd you by de faver; but how you know me?"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know · To what, where: me
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 (I, you), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | ccomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 faver | case |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 faver | compound |
| 7 | faver | faver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 know | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | by de faver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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