Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 18
"W'at does you season your recollection wid fer ter make it hol' on so?" inquired the old man.
Who acts: recollection, old man · What happens: ter, make, inquire · To what, where: ter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection, old man), 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 | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 2 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | nsubj |
| 8 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ter | amod |
| 9 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ter | compound |
| 10 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 hol | punct |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 inquired | mark |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 inquired | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ter in a quote | recollection | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | ter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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