Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 14
Kaze if you is, I kin holler louder,' sezee.
Who acts: Kaze · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaze), 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 | Kaze | Kaze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kin | nsubj |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 you | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Kaze | conj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kin | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kin | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kin | nsubj |
| 7 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kin | obj |
| 9 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 kin | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sezee | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sezee | punct |
| 12 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 louder | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Kaze | kin, loud property | 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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