Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 33
"Boss, don't you fergit it," responded Uncle Remus, fervidly. "
Who acts: you, Uncle Remus · What happens: not fergit, respond · To what, where: Boss · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 2 Boss | punct |
| 2 | Boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fergit | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fergit | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fergit | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fergit | nsubj |
| 7 | fergit | fergit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Boss | appos |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fergit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fergit | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fergit | punct |
| 11 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 responded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fervidly | punct |
| 15 | fervidly | fervidly | ADV | _ | 11 responded | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 responded | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fergit in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | Boss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respond speech: other | past | Uncle Remus | fervidly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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