Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 48
"Better go down yer ter de calaboose, an' git some news fer ter print," said Uncle Remus, with a touch of irony in his tone. "
Who acts: Better, Uncle Remus, Remus · What happens: go down, say, intonate · To what, where: ter · 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 (Better, Uncle Remus, Remus), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Better | Better | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obj |
| 7 | de | de | ADP | _ | 8 calaboose | case |
| 8 | calaboose | calaboose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 git | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 git | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 git | punct |
| 12 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calaboose | appos |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 print | det |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fer | compound |
| 15 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 print | compound |
| 17 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 git | nmod | ||
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Remus | compound |
| 22 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 touch | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 touch | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 touch | det |
| 26 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 irony | case |
| 28 | irony | irony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 touch | amod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tone | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tone | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 irony | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 touch | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down in a quote | infinitive | Better | yer's ter | de calaboose; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient ter=Extent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | intonate | Remus | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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