Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 19
Some fokes is mighty cu'us, dough.
Who acts: fokes · What happens: be · To what, where: mighty cu'us
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fokes), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 fokes | det |
| 2 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cu'us | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cu'us | cop |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cu'us | amod |
| 5 | cu'us | cu'us | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dough | punct |
| 7 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cu'us | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cu'us | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some fokes | mighty cu'us and dough | 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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