Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 5
"Well, now, here!" exclaimed the young man, in a dramatic tone, "what are you giving us now?
Who acts: young man, you · What happens: exclaim, give · To what, where: dramatic tone, us · 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 (young man, you), 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 | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 exclaimed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 here | punct |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 now | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tone | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tone | det |
| 16 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tone | amod |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 giving | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 giving | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 giving | obj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 giving | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 giving | nsubj |
| 23 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 exclaimed | advcl |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 giving | iobj |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 giving | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the young man | a dramatic tone | now | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · progressive | you | us | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=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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