Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 7
"Daddy who?" asked Uncle Remus, straightening himself up with dignity. "
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: ask, straighten up · To what, where: Uncle Remus, Remus
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 (Daddy), 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 Daddy | punct |
| 2 | Daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ? | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Daddy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Daddy | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Remus | compound |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 straightening | punct |
| 10 | straightening | straighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 straightening | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 straightening | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dignity | case |
| 14 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 straightening | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Daddy | Uncle Remus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remus=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | straighten up | gerund | Daddy not said here | Remus | with dignity | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with dignity=Instrument |
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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