Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 26

"I suppose it's full of molasses now," remarked one of the young men, sarcastically.

Who acts: I, ai · What happens: suppose, be, remark · To what, where: one · 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 (I, ai), 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 suppose	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 full	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 suppose	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 molasses	case
8	molasses	molass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 suppose	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remarked	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 remarked	punct
12	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 suppose	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 remarked	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 men	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sarcastically	punct
19	sarcastically	sarcastically	ADV	_	12 remarked	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	I		now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	ai			of molasses; full property	tree rules
3	remark speech: assert	participle	I not said here	one of the young men		sarcastically property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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