Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 50
"You say the darkeys are not going to emigrate this year?" inquired the agricultural editor, who is interested in these things.
Who acts: You, darkeys, agricultural editor · What happens: say, not go, emigrate, inquire, be · To what, where: things · 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 (You, darkeys, agricultural editor), 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 say | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 darkeys | det |
| 5 | darkeys | darkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 going | advmod |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 emigrate | mark |
| 10 | emigrate | emigrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 emigrate | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 editor | det |
| 17 | agricultural | agricultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 editor | amod |
| 18 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inquired | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 interested | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 interested | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 interested | cop |
| 22 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 editor | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 things | det |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 interested | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | present | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | the darkeys | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | emigrate in a quote | to-infinitive | the darkeys not said here | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | the agricultural editor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the agricultural editor | this things | interested property | 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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