Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 7
That's the reason we'd like to know what's in it now.
Who acts: That, we · What happens: be, like, know · To what, where: reason
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, we), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reason | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 like | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 know | ccomp |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 it | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 what | nsubj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 what | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | would | we | the reason not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | reason | 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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