Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 6
"That's the trouble," said one of the young men. "
Who acts: That · What happens: be, say · To what, where: trouble, one · 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 (That), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trouble | det |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the young men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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