Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 52

Dish yer col' snap rastles wid my bones, now," continued the old man, putting on his hat and picking up his walking-stick. "

Who acts: you, snap · What happens: dish, rastle, continue, put, pick up · To what, where: col, wid bones, old man, hat, walking stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, snap), 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	Dish	dish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 col	nmod:poss
3	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dish	obj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 rastles	punct
5	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rastles	nsubj
6	rastles	rastle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 col	acl:relcl
7	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rastles	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 now	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 rastles	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 continued	punct
14	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Dish	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 continued	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 putting	punct
19	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 continued	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 hat	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hat	nmod:poss
22	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 putting	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 picking	cc
24	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 putting	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 picking	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stick	nmod:poss
27	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stick	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 walking	punct
29	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picking	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dish	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dish	imperative	you not said here	yer's col			tree rules
2	rastle	present	snap	my wid bones		now	tree rules
3	continue in a quote	past		the old man			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	put in a quote	gerund			snap's hat		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on hat=Destination
5	pick up in a quote	gerund		snap's walking stick			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic

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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