Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 42
If you are engaged in a talking match you have won the money.
Who acts: you · What happens: engage, win · To what, where: you, talking match, money
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 engaged | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 engaged | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 engaged | aux:pass |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 match | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 match | det |
| 7 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 match | compound |
| 8 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 won | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 won | aux |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 match | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | present · passive | you | in a talking match goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in match=Goal | ||||
| 2 | win | present · perfect | you | the money | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
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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