Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 15
"'Tuck a walk de udder day, en man come long en sot de fiel' a-fier.
Who acts: you, en man · What happens: tuck, come · To what, where: long en sot
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, en man), 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 | _ | 3 Tuck | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tuck | punct |
| 3 | Tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 5 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 6 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walk | flat |
| 7 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tuck | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Tuck | parataxis |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sot | amod |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sot | compound |
| 15 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obj |
| 16 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 fiel | compound |
| 17 | fiel | fiel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sot | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fiel | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fier | det |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fier | punct |
| 21 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sot | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck in a quote | imperative | you not said here | day | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | en man | long en sot and a fier | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sot=Theme |
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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