Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 5
"Sperrits?" inquired Uncle Remus, sententiously.
Who acts: Sperrits · What happens: inquire · To what, where: Uncle Remus
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 (Sperrits), 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 | _ | 2 Sperrits | punct |
| 2 | Sperrits | sperrit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inquired | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sperrits | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sperrits | punct |
| 5 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Remus | compound |
| 7 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 inquired | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sententiously | punct |
| 9 | sententiously | sententiously | ADV | _ | 5 inquired | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | Sperrits | Uncle Remus | sententiously property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remus=Recipient |
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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