Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 4

"Han' me down my walkin'-cane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!), Yo' true lover gone down de lane (Hey my Lily! go down de road!)."

Who acts: Han, true lover · What happens: go down · To what, where: lane

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Han, true lover), 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 Han	punct
2	Han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	nsubj
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Han	punct
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Han	iobj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 Han	compound:prt
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 walkin	nmod:poss
7	walkin	walkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 walkin	punct
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cane	punct
10	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walkin	conj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Lily	punct
12	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	14 Lily	discourse
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Lily	nmod:poss
14	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cane	appos
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Lily	punct
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	de	de	ADP	_	19 road	case
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
23	Yo	Yo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lover	nmod:poss
24	'	's	PART	_	23 Yo	case
25	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lover	amod
26	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	nsubj
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 go	parataxis
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 gone	compound:prt
29	de	de	ADV	_	30 lane	advmod
30	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 Lily	punct
32	Hey	hey	INTJ	_	34 Lily	discourse
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Lily	nmod:poss
34	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 lane	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 Lily	punct
36	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	parataxis
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	de	de	ADP	_	39 road	case
39	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
41	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down in a quote	infinitive	Han		de road; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go down in a quote	participle	Yo's true lover	lane		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	go down in a quote	infinitive			de road; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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