Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 10

"It's mighty col' wedder," said Brer John Henry, evidently wishing to change the subject.

Who acts: w'at, mighty col · What happens: be, say, wish, change · To what, where: mighty col, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'at, mighty col), 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	_	5 col	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 col	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 col	cop
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 col	amod
5	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 col	punct
7	wedder	wedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 col	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 col	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 col	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 John	compound
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 John	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wishing	punct
15	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	16 wishing	advmod
16	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 change	mark
18	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wishing	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 subject	det
20	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 change	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	w'at	mighty col and wedder		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	mighty col and wedder			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish	gerund	mighty col and wedder not said here		evidently property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	mighty col and wedder not said here	the subject		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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