Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 4

Dey wuz dat flirtashus," continued the old man, closing one eye at his image in the glass, "dat Miss Meadows en de gals don't se no peace fum one week een' ter de udder.

Who acts: Dey, de gals · What happens: continue, close, not se, fum, image · To what, where: old man, one eye, image, peace, week een, glass

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, de gals), 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 continued	nsubj
2	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flirtashus	compound
3	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flirtashus	compound
4	flirtashus	flirtashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dey	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dey	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dey	punct
7	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 continued	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 closing	punct
12	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 continued	advcl
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eye	nummod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 closing	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 image	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 image	nmod:poss
17	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 closing	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 glass	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 glass	det
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 image	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dat	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 dat	punct
23	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 closing	obl
24	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Meadows	compound
25	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	27 de	compound
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 de	compound
27	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gals	compound
28	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 se	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 se	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 se	advmod
31	se	se	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dat	acl:relcl
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 peace	det
33	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 se	obj
34	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 se	xcomp
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 week	nummod
36	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 een	compound
37	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fum	obj
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 ter	punct
39	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 een	appos
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	41 udder	compound
41	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ter	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past	Dey	the old man			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	close in a quote	gerund	Dey not said here	one eye	dey's image in the glass	dat obl	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	not se	present · do-support	de gals	no peace			tree rules
4	fum	infinitive	de gals not said here	week een			tree rules
5	image in a quote		dey		the glass		nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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