Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 45
Is you drowndid w'en yo' ma tucks you in de bed?"
Who acts: you, ma · What happens: be, tuck · To what, where: drowndid w'en yo, you, de bed
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, ma), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 yo | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 yo | nsubj |
| 3 | drowndid | drowndid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yo | amod |
| 4 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yo | compound |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tucks | csubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 tucks | punct |
| 7 | ma | ma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tucks | nsubj |
| 8 | tucks | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tucks | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tucks | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tucks | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tucks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | drowndid w'en yo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tuck | present | ma | you | de bed | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme in bed=Trajectory |
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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