Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 14
"Hit look sorter cu'ous, boss, but ole an' steddy ez I is, I tuck'n kotch de meezles."
Who acts: you, gentleman · What happens: hit, look, be, kotch · To what, where: sorter, steddy ez
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 (you, 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 look | advcl |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obj |
| 5 | cu'ous | cu'ous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boss | punct |
| 7 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cu'ous | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kotch | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 kotch | cc |
| 10 | ole | ole | ADP | _ | 14 ez | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ez | det |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ez | punct |
| 13 | steddy | steddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ez | compound |
| 14 | ez | ez | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kotch | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ez | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ez | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 kotch | nsubj |
| 19 | tuck'n | tuck'n | X | _ | 20 kotch | compound |
| 20 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | parataxis |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 meezles | compound |
| 22 | meezles | meezle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kotch | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | sorter | cu'ous property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sorter=Attribute | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a gentleman = gentleman | a steddy ez not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ez=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kotch in a quote | a gentleman = gentleman | ole a steddy ez | tree rules |
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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