Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 31
I look mighty spindlin' an' puny now, don't I, boss?" inquired the old man, with great apparent earnestness.
Who acts: I, boss · What happens: look, do, inquire · To what, where: mighty spindlin, I, old man
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boss), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spindlin | amod |
| 4 | spindlin | spindlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 puny | punct |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puny | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 puny | punct |
| 8 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spindlin | conj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 look | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 I | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boss | punct |
| 15 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 boss | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 boss | punct |
| 18 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inquired | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 earnestness | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 earnestness | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 earnestness | amod |
| 25 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 earnestness | amod |
| 26 | earnestness | earnestness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | I | mighty spindlin | now | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spindlin=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | infinitive | I not said here | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other in a quote | past | boss | the old man and great apparent earnestness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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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