Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 8

Las', one Chuseday, Miss Meadows, she tole um dat ef dey come down ter her house de nex' Sat'day evenin', de whole caboodle on um 'ud go down de road a piece, whar der wuz a big flint rock, en de man w'at could take a sludge-hammer en knock de dus' out'n dat rock, he wuz de man w'at 'ud git de pick er de gals.

Who acts: wanter, one Chuseday Miss Meadows, piece, big flint rock, dey · What happens: dey, come down, go down, wuz, take, pick · To what, where: hammer en knock, er de gals

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 (wanter, one Chuseday Miss Meadows, piece, big flint rock), 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	Las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Meadows	nmod:poss
2	',	',	PART	_	1 Las	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Meadows	nummod
4	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Meadows	compound
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Chuseday	punct
6	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Meadows	compound
7	Meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dey	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dey	nsubj
10	tole	tole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 um	compound
11	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	compound
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dey	compound
13	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dey	compound
14	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Meadows	conj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	ter	ter	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	21 nex	compound
21	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	conj
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 evenin	punct
23	Sat'day	Sat'day	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 evenin	compound
24	evenin	evenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nex	appos
25	',	',	PUNCT	_	24 evenin	punct
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 caboodle	compound
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 caboodle	amod
28	caboodle	caboodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 evenin	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 um	case
30	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 caboodle	nmod
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 ud	punct
32	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 um	conj
33	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 come	parataxis
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	de	de	ADP	_	36 road	case
36	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 piece	det
38	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 whar	punct
40	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 piece	conj
41	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 wuz	amod
42	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 rock	det
44	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 rock	amod
45	flint	flint	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rock	compound
46	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 en	punct
48	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rock	conj
49	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	46 rock	conj
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 w'at	compound
51	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 rock	conj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 take	aux
53	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 wuz	parataxis
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 knock	det
55	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 hammer	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 sludge	punct
57	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 knock	compound
58	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 knock	compound
59	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
60	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	61 dus	compound
61	dus	dus	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 knock	appos
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	61 dus	punct
63	out'n	out'n	CCONJ	_	65 rock	cc
64	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 rock	amod
65	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 knock	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 wuz	punct
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 wuz	nsubj
68	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
69	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 w'at	amod
70	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 w'at	compound
71	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 wuz	conj
72	'	'	PUNCT	_	74 git	punct
73	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 git	compound
74	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 w'at	appos
75	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	74 git	flat:foreign
76	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	53 take	parataxis
77	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 gals	compound
78	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 gals	amod
79	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 pick	obj
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dey		wanter			tree rules
2	come down	present	Las's one Chuseday Miss Meadows and dat ef dey		ter wanter's house and de nex; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go down	infinitive			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	wuz		a piece and whar		de road	tree rules
5	take	could	a big flint rock and en and man w'at	a hammer en knock out'n dat rock		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme
6	wuz		dey			tree rules
7	pick	infinitive		er de gals		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gal=Patient

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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