Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 6
So dey fix it up 'mong deyse'f, Miss Meadows en de gals did, dat de nex' time de gents call dey'd gin um a game.
Who acts: dey, gals, gents · What happens: fix up, do, dat, call, gin · To what, where: tavvum, Meadows en, game · Speech: someone speaks here
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, gals, gents), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 fix | advmod |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fix | nsubj |
| 3 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fix | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 fix | compound:prt |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 deyse'f | punct |
| 7 | mong | mong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deyse'f | compound |
| 8 | deyse'f | deyse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fix | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 10 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Meadows | compound |
| 11 | Meadows | Meadow | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 en | compound |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deyse'f | conj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 en | flat:foreign |
| 14 | gals | gal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dat | punct |
| 17 | dat | dat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fix | conj |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 nex | compound |
| 19 | nex | nex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | compound |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 nex | punct |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dat | obj |
| 22 | de | de | ADP | _ | 24 call | mark |
| 23 | gents | gent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 call | nsubj |
| 24 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dat | advcl |
| 25 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gin | nsubj |
| 26 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 gin | aux |
| 27 | gin | gin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 call | ccomp |
| 28 | um | um | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 gin | dep |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 game | det |
| 30 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gin | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix up | infinitive | dey | tavvum | mong deyse'f and Meadows en obl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | past | gals | Meadows en not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | dat | infinitive | dey not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present | gents | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | gin | would | dey | a game | 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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