Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 23

"Dat's de way marters stan' twel de day er de race, en on dat day, ole Brer Tarrypin, en his ole 'oman, en his th'ee chilluns, dey got up 'fo' sun-up, en went ter de place.

Who acts: dey, en · What happens: get up, go · To what, where: th'ee chilluns, de place

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, en), 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	_	6 marters	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dat	case
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marters	compound
6	marters	marter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 twel	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 stan	case
9	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marters	nmod
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 day	compound
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twel	nmod:unmarked
12	er	er	X	_	14 race	compound
13	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 race	amod
14	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 twel	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 race	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 en	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Brer	punct
21	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Brer	amod
22	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 race	appos
23	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Brer	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 en	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 race	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ole	nmod:poss
27	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 oman	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 ole	case
29	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 en	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 en	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 race	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 chilluns	nmod:poss
33	th'ee	th'ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chilluns	compound
34	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 en	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 got	punct
36	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	nsubj
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 chilluns	acl:relcl
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 got	compound:prt
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 fo	punct
40	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	44 up	case
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 fo	punct
42	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 up	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 sun	punct
44	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 got	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 went	punct
46	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	nsubj
47	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 chilluns	conj
48	ter	ter	ADV	_	47 went	advmod
49	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 place	amod
50	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 went	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up in a quote	past	dey	Ole's th'ee chilluns not said here				for sun up	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chillun=Theme for up=Source
2	go in a quote	past	en	de place				ter property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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