Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 31
"What has it got in it?" broke in some one; "molasses, kerosene, or train-oil?"
Who acts: wuz · What happens: get, break · To what, where: ai, molasses · 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 (wuz), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 got | obj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 broke | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 molasses | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 molasses | punct |
| 16 | molasses | molass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 broke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kerosene | punct |
| 18 | kerosene | kerosene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 molasses | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 oil | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 oil | cc |
| 21 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 oil | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 train | punct |
| 23 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 oil | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 oil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | wuz | ai | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | break | past | molasses and kerosene | in some one; train oil obl | 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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