Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 4
"Ain't you year 'bout Jim?" asked Uncle Remus.
Who acts: Jim · What happens: ask · To what, where: Uncle Remus
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 (Jim), 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 | _ | 8 Jim | punct |
| 2 | Ai | Ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Jim | advmod |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 Jim | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 Jim | nsubj |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bout | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 year | case |
| 7 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Jim | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Jim | Jim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jim | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jim | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jim year's bout | Uncle Remus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remus=Recipient |
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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