Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 25
Yo' bes' holt is de chain-gang.
Who acts: holt · What happens: be · To what, where: de chain gang
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 (holt), 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 | Yo | you | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | bes | be | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 holt | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 bes | case |
| 5 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gang | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gang | cop |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gang | amod |
| 8 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gang | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chain | punct |
| 10 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Yo's bes's holt | de chain gang | 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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