Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 42
You know the story, but you have never heard Remus's version."
Who acts: You · What happens: know, not hear · To what, where: story, version
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 heard | advmod |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 know | parataxis |
| 11 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 version | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Remus | case |
| 13 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not hear | present · perfect | you | Remus's version | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer version=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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