Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 91

"W'en he git to de nine-mile pos' he tought he git dere fus, 'cause he mek two jump; so he holler: 'B'er Cooter!'

Who acts: deer, W'en git, mek · What happens: git, de, tought, fus, jump, holler · To what, where: mile pos

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, W'en git, mek), 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	_	4 git	punct
2	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 git	compound
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 git	nsubj
4	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tought	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 de	mark
6	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 git	acl
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 mile	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 nine	punct
9	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pos	compound
10	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 de	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 git	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tought	nsubj
13	tought	tought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fus	nsubj
15	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fus	compound
16	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fus	compound
17	fus	fus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tought	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 '	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 fus	punct
20	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	22 mek	case
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mek	nsubj
22	mek	MEK	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tought	obl
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 mek	flat
24	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mek	acl:relcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 holler	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 holler	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 holler	nsubj
28	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tought	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Cooter	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 Cooter	punct
31	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Cooter	compound
32	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 holler	appos
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Cooter	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 Cooter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	git in a quote		deer			tree rules
2	de in a quote	to-infinitive	W'en git not said here	mile pos		tree rules
3	tought in a quote	past	W'en git		cause mek	tree rules
4	fus in a quote		deer			tree rules
5	jump in a quote	present	mek not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	holler speech: other in a quote		deer			tree rules

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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