Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 16
Whar's yo' perwisions?" eying a chest with a rope around it.
Who acts: yo · What happens: eie · To what, where: chest
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 (yo), 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 | Whar | Whar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 yo | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Whar | case |
| 3 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 perwisions | punct |
| 5 | perwisions | perwision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 yo | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 yo | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 yo | punct |
| 8 | eying | eie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 yo | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eying | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rope | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rope | det |
| 13 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eying | obl |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rope | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 yo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eie in a quote | gerund | Whar's yo and perwisions not said here | a chest | with a rope around rope | 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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