Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 7
"A strange pig has been squealing in his ear," suggested some one else.
Who acts: strange pig · What happens: squeal, suggest · To what, where: ear, 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 (strange pig), 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 | _ | 7 squealing | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pig | det |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pig | amod |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squealing | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 squealing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 squealing | aux |
| 7 | squealing | squeal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 suggested | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ear | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ear | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squealing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 squealing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suggested | punct |
| 13 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 suggested | obj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeal in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | a strange pig | pig's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | some one | 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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