Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 13
Mr. Dog, he come en he come a zoonin'.
Who acts: Mr. Dog, Dog · What happens: come · To what, where: en, zoonin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Dog, Dog), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dog | compound |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 en | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 zoonin | det |
| 10 | zoonin | zoonin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 zoonin | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Mr. Dog | en | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Dog | a zoonin | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location zoonin=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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