Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 2
"Yes, sir," responded Charley, gravely, "dat's so."
Who acts: Charley, dat · What happens: respond, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charley, dat), 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 | _ | 7 responded | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 responded | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Charley | Charley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 responded | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gravely | punct |
| 10 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 7 responded | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 so | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 so | punct |
| 13 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 so | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 so | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 responded | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 responded | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | Charley | gravely property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | dat | so 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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