Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 5
"A mighty big w'ich?" asked one of the crowd.
Who acts: mighty big w'ich · What happens: ask · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty big w'ich), 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 | _ | 5 w'ich | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 w'ich | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'ich | amod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'ich | amod |
| 5 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'ich | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'ich | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a mighty big w'ich | one of the crowd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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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