Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 41
Better go and hire a hall," remarked the sporting editor, with a yawn. "
Who acts: you · What happens: go, hire, remark, sport · To what, where: hall, sporting editor
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 (you), 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 | Better | better | CCONJ | _ | 2 go | cc |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hire | cc |
| 4 | hire | hire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hire | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 remarked | punct |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 go | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 editor | det |
| 11 | sporting | sport | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 editor | amod |
| 12 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yawn | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 yawn | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 yawn | det |
| 16 | yawn | yawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remarked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hire | infinitive | you not said here | a hall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remark speech: assert in a quote | participle | you not said here | the sporting editor | with a yawn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent editor=Topic | |||
| 4 | sport in a quote | gerund | 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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