Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 13
"In dis w'ich?" inquired Uncle with a sudden affectation of interest.
Who acts: dis w'ich · What happens: inquire · To what, where: Uncle
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dis w'ich), 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 | _ | 4 w'ich | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dis | case |
| 3 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 w'ich | compound |
| 4 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 w'ich | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 w'ich | punct |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 affectation | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 affectation | det |
| 11 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 affectation | amod |
| 12 | affectation | affectation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 interest | case |
| 14 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 affectation | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | dis w'ich | Uncle | with a sudden affectation of interest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent uncle=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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