Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 6
"A mighty big w'atsizname," answered Uncle Remus, cautiously. "
Who acts: mighty big w'atsizname · What happens: answer · To what, where: Uncle Remus
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'atsizname), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 w'atsizname | det |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'atsizname | amod |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'atsizname | amod |
| 5 | w'atsizname | w'atsizname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'atsizname | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'atsizname | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cautiously | punct |
| 12 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a mighty big w'atsizname | Uncle Remus | cautiously property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent remus=Eventuality |
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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