Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 22
But dey got de bed-cord atter w'ile, en den dey all put out ter de branch.
Who acts: dey, den dey · What happens: get, put out · To what, where: cord atter w'ile, ter branch
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, den 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 got | cc |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cord | amod |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cord | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bed | punct |
| 7 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'ile | compound |
| 8 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'ile | compound |
| 9 | w'ile | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dey | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 den | compound |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dey | compound |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'ile | appos |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dey | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branch | compound |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 ter | flat:foreign |
| 19 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dey | cord atter w'ile | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer w'ile=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put out | past | den dey not said here | ter branch | all property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent branch=Goal |
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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