Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 37

In dem days, Miss Meadows's bed-cord would a hilt a mule."

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: 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	13 hilt	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cord	nmod:poss
6	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Miss	flat
7	's	's	PART	_	5 Miss	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cord	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bed	punct
10	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hilt	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hilt	aux
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hilt	det
13	hilt	hilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mule	det
15	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hilt	nmod:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hilt	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hilt	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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