Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 8
"Not dat I knows un," responded Uncle Remus, gravely. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: know, respond · To what, where: un · 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 (Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 3 dat | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dat | advmod |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dat | acl:relcl |
| 6 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dat | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dat | punct |
| 9 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Remus | compound |
| 11 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 responded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gravely | punct |
| 13 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 9 responded | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | un | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer un=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | Uncle Remus | gravely property | vn respond-113 «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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