Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 13
Hit look mighty cu'us, Brer Remus."
Who acts: you · What happens: hit, look · To what, where: mighty cu'us
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hit | xcomp |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cu'us | amod |
| 4 | cu'us | cu'us | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Remus | punct |
| 6 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cu'us | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | mighty cu'us | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cu'us=Attribute |
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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