Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 36
"'Ketch holt er me--I'm a drownin'--I'm a drownin'--tu'n loose de stump root en ketch holt er me.'
Who acts: Brer, Ketch holt · What happens: be, er · To what, where: drownin, Brer
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 (Brer, 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 | _ | 28 er | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 holt | punct |
| 3 | Ketch | Ketch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 holt | compound |
| 4 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 er | nsubj |
| 5 | er | er | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 holt | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 drownin | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 drownin | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 drownin | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drownin | det |
| 11 | drownin | drownin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holt | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 drownin | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 drownin | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 drownin | nsubj |
| 15 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drownin | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drownin | det |
| 17 | drownin | drownin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holt | appos |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 drownin | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 holt | punct |
| 20 | tu'n | tu'n | CCONJ | _ | 27 holt | cc |
| 21 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 holt | amod |
| 22 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stump | amod |
| 23 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 root | compound |
| 24 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 en | compound |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ketch | compound |
| 26 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holt | compound |
| 27 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holt | conj |
| 28 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 er | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 er | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Brer | a drownin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Brer | a drownin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | er in a quote | past | Ketch holt er me tu'n loose ketch holt | Brer | 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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