Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 2

In dem days," continued the old man, "de creeturs kyar'd on marters same ez fokes.

Who acts: de · What happens: continue, creetur, ' · To what, where: old man, kyar, marters

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	compound
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 continued	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continued	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 creeturs	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 creeturs	punct
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 creeturs	nsubj
13	creeturs	creetur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 continued	conj
14	kyar	kyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 creeturs	obj
15	'd	'	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 kyar	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 marters	case
17	marters	marter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 'd	obl
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fokes	amod
19	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fokes	amod
20	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 marters	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past		the old man		day	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	creetur	present	de	kyar			tree rules
3	'	participle		kyar not said here	marters and same ez fokes		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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