Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox, sentence 7
"Bless gracious, honey, dat he didn't.
Who acts: you, Uncle · What happens: bless, not do · To what, where: honey, dat
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Uncle), 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 Bless | punct |
| 2 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Bless | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honey | punct |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bless | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honey | appos |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | acl:relcl |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 did | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless in a quote | imperative | you not said here | honey | gracious property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | |||
| 2 | not do in a quote | past | Uncle | dat not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality |
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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