Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 2
"That's what they are doing," responded a young man; "that's the way they make a living."
Who acts: That, gwine, young man · What happens: be, do, respond, make · To what, where: way, living · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, gwine, young man), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 responded | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 10 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 way | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 responded | parataxis |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 living | det |
| 23 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | gwine | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | respond speech: other | past | a young man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present | gwine | a living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
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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