Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 8

Who dat flingin' rocks on top er my house, w'ich a little mo' en one un em would er drap spang on my head?"

Who acts: one un · What happens: dat, drap · To what, where: flingin rocks, top, spang, head

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one un), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 dat	nsubj
2	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flingin	flingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rocks	compound
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 flingin	punct
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dat	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	obl
8	er	er	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 w'ich	punct
12	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mo	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mo	amod
15	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dat	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mo	appos
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 un	nummod
19	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drap	nsubj
20	em	they	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 drap	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 drap	aux
22	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 drap	advmod
23	drap	drap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 en	acl:relcl
24	spang	spang	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drap	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 head	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drap	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dat	present		flingin rocks		top		er my house and w'ich	tree rules
2	drap	would	one un	spang		my head			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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