Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 16
"I boun' you is, boss; I boun' you is.
Who acts: agricultural editor, boun · What happens: boun, be · To what, where: boss, boun
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 (agricultural editor, boun), 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 | _ | 3 boun | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 boun | nsubj |
| 3 | boun | boun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boss | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 boun | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 boun | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boss | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 boun | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 boun | nsubj |
| 11 | boun | boun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boss | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 boun | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 boun | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 boun | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boun in a quote | the agricultural editor = editor | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | boun | boss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the agricultural editor = editor | boun | 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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