Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 23
His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose.
Who acts: whar · What happens: not pull · To what, where: en
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), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fis | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fis | fi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 fis | case |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 en | punct |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pull | advmod |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 en | acl:relcl |
| 11 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pull | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pull | can | whar | en not said here | loose property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme |
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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