Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 3
"How's Jeems Rober'son?" he asked.
Who acts: Jeems Rober'son · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Jeems Rober'son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jeems Rober'son), 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 | _ | 5 Rober'son | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Rober'son | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rober'son | cop |
| 4 | Jeems | Jeems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Rober'son | compound |
| 5 | Rober'son | Rober'son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rober'son | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rober'son | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Jeems Rober'son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Jeems Rober'son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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