Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 10
"He's a gwineter regelate de wedder," replied Uncle Remus, sententiously. "
Who acts: dat, Uncle Remus · What happens: regelate, reply · To what, where: de wedder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat, 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 | _ | 6 regelate | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 regelate | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 regelate | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gwineter | det |
| 5 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 regelate | nsubj |
| 6 | regelate | regelate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wedder | compound |
| 8 | wedder | wedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 regelate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 regelate | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 regelate | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Remus | compound |
| 13 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sententiously | punct |
| 15 | sententiously | sententiously | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regelate in a quote | present | dat | de wedder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Uncle Remus | sententiously property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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