Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 10
"Oh, we sorter knocks 'roun' an' picks up a livin'," responded one.
What happens: pick up, respond · To what, where: roun, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 roun | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 knocks | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knocks | nsubj |
| 5 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocks | compound |
| 6 | knocks | knock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roun | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 knocks | case |
| 8 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picks | obl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 picks | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 picks | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 an | punct |
| 12 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picks | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 livin | det |
| 15 | livin | livin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 responded | nsubj |
| 16 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 15 livin | dep |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 responded | punct |
| 18 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 picks | parataxis |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 responded | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 picks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up in a quote | present | sorter knocks's roun | an obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | one | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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