Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 1
"YOU'VE been looking like you were rather under the weather for the past week or two, Uncle Remus," said a gentleman to the old man.
Who acts: old man, gentleman · What happens: look, be, say · To what, where: Uncle Remus, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, gentleman), 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 | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 2 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | 'VE | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 weather | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 weather | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 weather | cop |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 weather | advmod |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 weather | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 weather | det |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 week | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 week | det |
| 15 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 week | amod |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weather | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 two | cc |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 week | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 20 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Remus | compound |
| 21 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 gentleman | det |
| 26 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 man | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the old man = man | Uncle Remus | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remus=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the old man = man | week | like the weather | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a gentleman | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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