Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 17
"Hit's a natal fack, boss, I declar' ter grashus ef 'tain't.
Who acts: Hit, gentleman · What happens: be, declar · To what, where: natal fack
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 (Hit, 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 | _ | 6 fack | punct |
| 2 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fack | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fack | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fack | det |
| 5 | natal | natal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fack | amod |
| 6 | fack | fack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fack | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 declar | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 declar | nsubj |
| 11 | declar | declar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fack | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 ef | punct |
| 13 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grashus | compound |
| 14 | grashus | grashus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ef | compound |
| 15 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declar | appos |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tai | punct |
| 17 | tai | tai | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ef | conj |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 tai | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Hit | a natal fack and boss and declar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declar in a quote | a gentleman = gentleman | 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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