Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 16
You are trying to get up a sensation."
Who acts: You · What happens: try, get up · To what, where: sensation
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trying | aux |
| 3 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trying | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sensation | det |
| 8 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trying | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | You | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get up not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a sensation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sensation=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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