Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 17
Boss, is enny er you all ever rastled wid de toofache?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, rastl, toofache · To what, where: Boss enny
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enny | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Boss | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enny | cop |
| 4 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | er | er | CCONJ | _ | 12 toofache | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 toofache | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 toofache | advmod |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 rastled | advmod |
| 9 | rastled | rastl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 toofache | amod |
| 10 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 toofache | amod |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 toofache | compound |
| 12 | toofache | toofache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enny | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 toofache | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 toofache | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Boss enny er rastled wid de toofache | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rastl | participle | ever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | toofache | you | tree rules |
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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