Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 14
"Well, it don't deceive any of us up here," remarked the agricultural editor, dryly. "
Who acts: jug, agricultural editor · What happens: not deceive, remark · To what, where: any · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jug, agricultural editor), 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 | _ | 7 deceive | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 deceive | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deceive | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 deceive | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 deceive | advmod |
| 7 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 deceive | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 any | nmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 any | compound:prt |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 deceive | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remarked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 remarked | punct |
| 15 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 deceive | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 editor | det |
| 17 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 editor | amod |
| 18 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remarked | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dryly | punct |
| 20 | dryly | dryly | ADV | _ | 15 remarked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deceive | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 deceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deceive in a quote | do-support | jug | any | here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | the agricultural editor | dryly property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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