Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 33
"But I speck I struck up wid a payin' job las' Chuseday," continued Uncle Remus, in a hopeful tone.
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: speck, strike up, wi, continue · To what, where: job las, Uncle Remus, hopeful tone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | _ | 4 speck | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 speck | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 speck | nsubj |
| 4 | speck | speck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 continued | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speck | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 struck | compound:prt |
| 8 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 payin | det |
| 10 | payin | payin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 las | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 payin | case |
| 12 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 las | compound |
| 13 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wid | obj |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 las | case |
| 15 | Chuseday | Chuseday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 las | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speck | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 speck | punct |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Remus | compound |
| 20 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tone | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tone | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tone | det |
| 24 | hopeful | hopeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tone | amod |
| 25 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speck in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | strike up in a quote | past | Uncle Remus = remus | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wi in a quote | past | Uncle Remus = remus not said here | a payin's job las | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | Uncle Remus | a hopeful tone | tree rules |
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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