Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 4
"What revival did you attend last night?" inquired one.
Who acts: revival · What happens: attend, inquire · To what, where: one · 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 (revival), 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 | _ | 6 attend | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 attend | obj |
| 3 | revival | revival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attend | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attend | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 attend | nsubj |
| 6 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | ccomp |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attend | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 attend | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 attend | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 inquired | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend in a quote | past · do-support | revival | night | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Goal | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=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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