Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 5
"Whar is you m'anderin' unter, pard?"
Who acts: Whar · What happens: be · To what, where: m'anderin
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 (Whar), 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 | _ | 5 m'anderin | punct |
| 2 | Whar | Whar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 m'anderin | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 m'anderin | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 m'anderin | nsubj |
| 5 | m'anderin | m'anderin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 unter | punct |
| 7 | unter | unter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 m'anderin | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pard | punct |
| 9 | pard | pard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unter | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 m'anderin | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 m'anderin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Whar | m'anderin and unter and pard | 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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