Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 9
"W'at he gwine do 'roun' yer?" asked one.
Who acts: dat, W'at gwine · What happens: gwine, do, ask · To what, where: roun, one · 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, W'at gwine), 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 | _ | 2 W'at | punct |
| 2 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gwine | compound |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gwine | nsubj |
| 4 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 7 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 9 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 do | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gwine in a quote | dat | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | W'at gwine | roun | y property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roun=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | W'at gwine not said here | one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
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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