Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 9
De members 'uz a blame sight too mutuel fer ter suit my doctrines."
Who acts: uz, my · What happens: suit, indoctrinate · To what, where: doctrines
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uz, my), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 members | amod |
| 2 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 uz | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 members | case |
| 4 | uz | uz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suit | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sight | det |
| 6 | blame | blame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sight | amod |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suit | nsubj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 ter | advmod |
| 9 | mutuel | mutuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 10 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ter | compound |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 12 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 doctrines | nmod:poss |
| 14 | doctrines | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 suit | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 suit | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suit | infinitive | De members's uz | my doctrines | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | indoctrinate | my | nom doctrine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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