Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last, sentence 24

De ole 'oman, she tuck 'er stan' nigh de fus' mile-pos', she did, en de chilluns nigh de udders, up ter de las', en dar old Brer Tarrypin, he tuck his stan'.

Who acts: dey, de, chilluns, en · What happens: tuck, pos, do, de · To what, where: mile pos, udders, stan

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, de, chilluns, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ole	compound
2	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 ole	punct
4	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ole	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tuck	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tuck	nsubj
7	tuck	tuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ole	conj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 tuck	punct
9	er	er	ADP	_	10 stan	case
10	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tuck	nmod
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 pos	punct
12	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	18 pos	advmod
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 pos	nsubj
14	fus	fu	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pos	nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	_	14 fus	case
16	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pos	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mile	punct
18	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stan	appos
19	',	',	PUNCT	_	18 pos	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pos	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 en	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ole	conj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	23 en	flat:foreign
25	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 de	nsubj
26	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	27 de	advmod
27	de	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 en	acl:relcl
28	udders	udder	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 de	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ter	punct
30	up	up	ADV	_	31 ter	advmod
31	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ole	conj
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 ter	conj
33	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 en	nmod:poss
34	',	',	PART	_	33 las	case
35	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 de	obj
36	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Brer	amod
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Brer	amod
38	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 ter	nmod
39	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Brer	flat
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tuck	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tuck	nsubj
42	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ole	parataxis
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 stan	nmod:poss
44	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 tuck	obj
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 stan	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tuck		dey			er stan	tree rules
2	pos		de			nigh property	tree rules
3	do	past	dey	fus's mile pos not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pos=Eventuality
4	de	present	chilluns	udders		nigh property	tree rules
5	tuck	infinitive	en		en's stan		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent stan=Destination

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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