Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 62
"'Duz you wanter purchis dem hogs?'
Who acts: you · What happens: wanter
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hogs | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanter | punct |
| 3 | Duz | Duz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wanter | compound |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wanter | nsubj |
| 5 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hogs | compound |
| 6 | purchis | purchis | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 wanter | flat:foreign |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanter | conj |
| 8 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 hogs | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 hogs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wanter in a quote | you | 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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