Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 23

"Dey riz," continued Uncle Remus, "en w'en dey lit, dey lit in de top er de highest sorter pine, en de pine w'at dey lit in wuz growin' on er ilun, en de ilun wuz in de middle er de river, wid de deep water runnin' all 'roun'.

Who acts: Dey riz, dey · What happens: continue, lit · To what, where: Uncle Remus, highest sorter pine, de top er, de pine w'at dey, wuz growin

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 (Dey riz, dey), 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	_	3 riz	punct
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 riz	compound
3	riz	riz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continued	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 riz	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 riz	punct
6	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 continued	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lit	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 lit	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lit	compound
12	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 en	flat
13	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lit	compound
14	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continued	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dey	punct
16	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lit	conj
17	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 dey	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 er	case
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 er	amod
20	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 er	amod
21	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lit	obl
22	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 lit	flat:foreign
23	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 pine	amod
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pine	compound
25	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lit	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lit	conj
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 dey	compound
29	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dey	compound
30	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dey	compound
31	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 en	appos
32	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 dey	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 growin	case
34	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 growin	compound
35	growin	growin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lit	obl
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 growin	punct
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 ilun	case
38	er	er	X	_	39 ilun	compound
39	ilun	ilun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lit	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 en	punct
41	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dey	conj
42	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	44 wuz	compound
43	ilun	ilun	X	_	44 wuz	compound
44	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 en	conj
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 er	case
46	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 er	compound
47	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 er	compound
48	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wuz	nmod
49	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	50 river	compound
50	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 er	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 wid	punct
52	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 river	amod
53	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	56 runnin	compound
54	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 runnin	amod
55	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 runnin	compound
56	runnin	runnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wid	obl
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	60 roun	punct
58	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 roun	det
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	60 roun	punct
60	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 runnin	appos
61	'	'	PUNCT	_	60 roun	punct
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Dey riz	Uncle Remus		en dey lit and dey and en obl	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme
2	lit in a quote	participle	dey not said here	highest sorter pine	de top er		tree rules
3	lit in a quote	participle		de pine w'at dey and en and de ilun wuz in de middle er and de river not said here	wuz growin	on er ilun	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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