Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat, sentence 59

"Kase all de time de cow wuz layin' pile up in his smoke-'ouse, en him en his chilluns wuz eatin' fried beef an inguns eve'y time dey mouf water.

Who acts: Kase, smoke, chilluns, inguns · What happens: pile up, en, wuz, eatin, fry, water · To what, where: ouse, en, fried beef

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kase, smoke, chilluns, inguns), 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	_	2 Kase	punct
2	Kase	Kase	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pile	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 layin	nmod:unmarked
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 time	flat:foreign
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 layin	compound
8	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 layin	compound
9	layin	layin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Kase	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 layin	punct
11	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 pile	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 ouse	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ouse	nmod:poss
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ouse	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ouse	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 ouse	punct
18	ouse	ouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pile	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 en	punct
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ouse	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 en	nsubj
22	en	en	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 en	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 chilluns	nmod:poss
24	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wuz	nsubj
25	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 en	acl:relcl
26	eatin	eatin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 wuz	xcomp
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 eatin	punct
28	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 beef	amod
29	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eatin	obj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 water	det
31	inguns	ingun	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 water	nsubj
32	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	compound
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 water	nsubj
34	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mouf	compound
35	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 water	compound
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beef	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pile up in a quote	present	Kase		Kase's ouse and en	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ouse=Destination
2	en in a quote	past	smoke	en not said here		tree rules
3	wuz in a quote	present	Kase's chilluns	en not said here		tree rules
4	eatin in a quote	gerund	Kase's chilluns not said here	fried beef		tree rules
5	fry in a quote	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	water in a quote		inguns			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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