Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 34
Those who watched say the quartet didn't take the cars.
Who acts: quartet · What happens: watch, say, not take · To what, where: cars · 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 (quartet), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watched | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 quartet | det |
| 6 | quartet | quartet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 take | advmod |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cars | det |
| 11 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not take | past · do-support | the quartet | the cars | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
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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