Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 39
"Boss, you see dat smart Ellick?"
Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: smart Ellick
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boss | punct |
| 2 | Boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Boss | acl:relcl |
| 6 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ellick | det |
| 7 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ellick | amod |
| 8 | Ellick | Ellick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boss | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Boss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | that smart Ellick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ellick=Stimulus |
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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