Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 34
"Yes," said the agricultural editor, "and it's the meanest bug- juice in town--regular sorghum skimmings."
Who acts: agricultural editor, sence · What happens: say, be · To what, where: meanest bug juice, town · 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 (agricultural editor, sence), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 editor | det |
| 7 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 editor | amod |
| 8 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 juice | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 juice | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 juice | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 juice | det |
| 15 | meanest | mean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 juice | amod |
| 16 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 juice | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bug | punct |
| 18 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 juice | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 skimmings | punct |
| 22 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skimmings | amod |
| 23 | sorghum | sorghum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skimmings | compound |
| 24 | skimmings | skimming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 juice | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 juice | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 juice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the agricultural editor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | sence | the meanest bug juice and regular sorghum skimmings | town | 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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