Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 25
"W'ich ark's dat?" asked the old man, in a tone of well-feigned curiosity.
Who acts: ark dat · What happens: ask, feign, intonate · To what, where: old man, tone, feigned curiosity
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ark dat), 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 dat | punct |
| 2 | W'ich | W'ich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ark | compound |
| 3 | ark | ark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | compound |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 ark | case |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tone | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tone | det |
| 15 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 curiosity | case |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 feigned | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 curiosity | amod |
| 20 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tone | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | ark dat | the old man | a tone of feigned curiosity | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | feign | participle | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | intonate | feigned curiosity | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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