Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 91
De fus glimpse I kotch un um, I tuck my axe en march inter Ole Miss settin'-room.
Who acts: I · What happens: kotch, tuck · To what, where: De fus glimpse, march inter
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), 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 | De | De | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 glimpse | compound |
| 2 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glimpse | amod |
| 3 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kotch | nmod:desc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kotch | nsubj |
| 5 | kotch | kotch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 um | compound |
| 7 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kotch | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tuck | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tuck | nsubj |
| 10 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kotch | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 inter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 en | compound |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 march | compound |
| 14 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inter | compound |
| 15 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tuck | obj |
| 16 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 settin | amod |
| 17 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 settin | compound |
| 18 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inter | appos |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 settin | punct |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 room | punct |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 settin | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kotch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kotch | present | I | De fus glimpse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tuck | present | I | my march inter | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inter=Theme |
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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