Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 3
"Well, I'm mighty glad er dat," remarked Uncle Remus, with unction. "
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: be, remark · To what, where: mighty glad er dat · 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 (Uncle Remus), 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 | _ | 9 dat | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 dat | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dat | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dat | cop |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dat | amod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dat | amod |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dat | compound |
| 9 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 remarked | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dat | acl |
| 13 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Remus | compound |
| 14 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unction | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 unction | case |
| 17 | unction | unction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remarked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dat | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | mighty glad er dat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | Uncle Remus | mighty glad er dat not said here | with unction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=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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