Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 10
"Oh, hit's out yan," replied the old man, motioning his head as if it was just beyond the iron gates of the depot. "
Who acts: old man, head · What happens: hit, be, reply, motion · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. 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, head), 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 | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 hit | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 out | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 hit | advmod |
| 7 | yan | yan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hit | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 motioning | punct |
| 15 | motioning | motion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 motioning | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 gates | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gates | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gates | cop |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 gates | advmod |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gates | det |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gates | compound |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 motioning | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 depot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 depot | det |
| 29 | depot | depot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gates | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | infinitive | yan property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | out property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | motion | gerund | the old man not said here | man's head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | head | as the iron gates; of the depot | 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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