Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 9
"I know you in Char'son, an' den in Sewanny.
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: know · To what, where: you, Char'son
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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Char'son | case |
| 6 | Char'son | Char'son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 den | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 den | det |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 den | punct |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Char'son | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Sewanny | case |
| 12 | Sewanny | Sewanny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 den | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Daddy | you | Char'son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=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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