Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 22
Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug.
Who acts: whar, merlasses · What happens: break, jug
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 (whar, merlasses), 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 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dar | amod |
| 2 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dar | case |
| 4 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 merlasses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | merlasses | merlass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 jug | nsubj |
| 9 | jug | jug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | ccomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Right dar's whar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | jug | present | whar's merlasses | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: 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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