Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 32
"'Tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me--tu'n loose dat stump root en ketch holt er me.'
Who acts: Tu'n, root en, loose ketch holt · What happens: loose, holt, er · To what, where: tu'n
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 (Tu'n, root en, loose ketch holt), 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 loose | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loose | punct |
| 3 | Tu'n | Tu'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loose | nsubj |
| 4 | loose | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holt | amod |
| 6 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 root | compound |
| 7 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | compound |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holt | nsubj |
| 9 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holt | compound |
| 10 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loose | obj |
| 11 | er | er | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 loose | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 tu'n | punct |
| 14 | tu'n | tu'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | obl |
| 15 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 holt | amod |
| 16 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stump | compound |
| 17 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 root | compound |
| 18 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | compound |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ketch | compound |
| 20 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 holt | compound |
| 21 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 er | nsubj |
| 22 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loose | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 er | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loose | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loose in a quote | past | Tu'n | er Brer | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | holt in a quote | root en | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | er in a quote | past | loose ketch holt | tu'n | 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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