Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 30

Squinch-owl holler eve'y time he see a witch, en w'en you hear de dog howlin' in de middle er de night, one un um's mighty ap' ter be prowlin' 'roun'.

Who acts: dey, you · What happens: see, hear, be · To what, where: witch, de middle er, de dog howlin, ter prowlin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, you), 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	Squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owl	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Squinch	punct
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holler	compound
4	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eve'y	compound
5	eve'y	eve'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl:unmarked
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 w'en	punct
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'en	compound
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 witch	appos
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 w'en	acl:relcl
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 howlin	compound
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 howlin	compound
18	howlin	howlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 howlin	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 er	case
21	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 er	compound
22	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 er	compound
23	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	25 night	compound
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 er	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ap	punct
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 um	nummod
28	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 um	compound
29	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ap	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 um	case
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ap	amod
32	ap	AP	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	conj
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 prowlin	punct
34	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 prowlin	compound
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 prowlin	cop
36	prowlin	prowlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ap	conj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 prowlin	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 roun	punct
39	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 prowlin	appos
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 roun	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	present	dey	a witch	de middle er	time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
2	hear	present	you	de dog howlin			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howlin=Stimulus
3	is a	infinitive	dey not said here	ter prowlin			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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