Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 2
He had a bag slung across his shoulder, and in the bag was a jug.
Who acts: He · What happens: have, sling, be · To what, where: bag, shoulder, jug
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 (He), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bag | det |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | slung | sling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bag | acl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jug | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jug | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jug | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 jug | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 jug | det |
| 16 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | He | a bag | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sling | participle | a bag not said here | his shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a jug | the bag | 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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