Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 40
Hit wuz wunner deze yer fo'-prong fellers.
Who acts: you · What happens: hit · To what, where: wunner deze
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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wunner | compound |
| 3 | wunner | wunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deze | compound |
| 4 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hit | obj |
| 5 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hit | xcomp |
| 6 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 10 fellers | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fellers | punct |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 prong | punct |
| 9 | prong | prong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fellers | compound |
| 10 | fellers | feller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yer | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | wunner deze | y property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deze=Co-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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