Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 26
"Hit's bleedzed ter be so, Brer Ab.
What happens: be
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: 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 ter | punct |
| 2 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Hit | case |
| 4 | bleedzed | bleedzed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ter | amod |
| 5 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 so | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 ter | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Brer | punct |
| 9 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ter | appos |
| 10 | Ab | Ab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Brer | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | so property | 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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