Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 52

De chilluns 'ud wake up in de mawnins wid der ha'r tangle up, en wid scratches on um like dey bin thoo a brier-patch, twel bimeby one day de nigger he 'low dat he'd set up dat night en keep one eye on his brer; en sho' nuff dat night, des ez de chickens wuz crowin' fer twelve, up jump de brer and pull off his skin en sail out'n de house in de shape un a bat, en w'at duz de nigger do but grab up de hide, and turn it wrong-sudout'ards en sprinkle it wid salt.

Who acts: De chilluns, mawnins, der ha'r, en wid, brier patch, low dat · What happens: wake up, wi, tangle up, scratch, dat, set up · To what, where: de, um, dey bin thoo, wid, one eye, brer

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 (De chilluns, mawnins, der ha'r, en wid), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 chilluns	compound
2	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wake	nsubj
3	'	's	PART	_	2 chilluns	case
4	ud	ud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chilluns	conj
5	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 wake	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 de	case
8	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wake	obl
9	mawnins	mawnin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wid	nsubj
10	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wake	parataxis
11	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 ha'r	amod
12	ha'r	ha'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tangle	nsubj
13	tangle	tangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wid	ccomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 tangle	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scratches	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wid	compound
17	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scratches	nsubj
18	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tangle	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 um	case
20	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scratches	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 thoo	case
22	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thoo	compound
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thoo	compound
24	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scratches	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 patch	det
26	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 patch	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 brier	punct
28	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dat	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 twel	punct
30	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 patch	conj
31	bimeby	bimeby	ADV	_	33 day	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 day	nummod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 patch	nmod
34	de	de	ADP	_	35 nigger	case
35	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 patch	nmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 dat	nsubj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 dat	punct
38	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dat	amod
39	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thoo	acl:relcl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 set	nsubj:pass
41	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 set	aux
42	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 dat	acl:relcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 set	compound:prt
44	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 en	det
45	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 en	compound
46	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 set	obj
47	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 scratches	conj
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 eye	nummod
49	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 keep	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 brer	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 brer	nmod:poss
52	brer	brer	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 keep	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 nuff	punct
54	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sho	compound
55	sho	sho	NOUN	_	57 nuff	compound
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	57 nuff	punct
57	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wake	parataxis
58	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 night	det
59	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 nuff	appos
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 wuz	punct
61	des	des	X	Foreign=Yes	65 wuz	nsubj
62	ez	ez	X	Foreign=Yes	61 des	flat:foreign
63	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	61 des	flat:foreign
64	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 wuz	nsubj
65	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 night	parataxis
66	crowin	crowin	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 fer	compound
67	'	'	PUNCT	_	66 crowin	punct
68	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 wuz	obj
69	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	68 fer	flat
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 jump	punct
71	up	up	ADV	_	72 jump	advmod
72	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 wuz	conj
73	de	de	ADV	_	74 brer	advmod
74	brer	br	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	72 jump	xcomp
75	and	and	CCONJ	_	76 pull	cc
76	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 jump	conj
77	off	off	ADP	_	76 pull	compound:prt
78	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 skin	nmod:poss
79	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pull	obj
80	en	en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	82 out'n	amod
81	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 out'n	compound
82	out'n	out'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pull	obj
83	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	84 house	nmod:poss
84	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pull	obj
85	in	in	ADP	_	88 un	case
86	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 un	amod
87	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 un	compound
88	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pull	obl
89	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	90 bat	det
90	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 un	appos
91	,	,	PUNCT	_	94 duz	punct
92	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 duz	compound
93	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 duz	compound
94	duz	duz	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 bat	appos
95	de	de	ADP	_	96 nigger	case
96	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 duz	nmod
97	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	76 pull	parataxis
98	but	but	CCONJ	_	99 grab	cc
99	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	97 do	conj
100	up	up	ADP	_	99 grab	compound:prt
101	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	102 hide	nmod:poss
102	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 grab	obj
103	,	,	PUNCT	_	105 turn	punct
104	and	and	CCONJ	_	105 turn	cc
105	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 wuz	conj
106	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	105 turn	obj
107	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	109 sudout'ards	nmod:unmarked
108	-	-	PUNCT	_	107 wrong	punct
109	sudout'ards	sudout'ard	NOUN	Number=Plur	110 en	compound
110	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	111 sprinkle	nsubj
111	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	105 turn	parataxis
112	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	111 sprinkle	obj
113	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	114 salt	amod
114	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	111 sprinkle	obj
115	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	De chilluns and ud		de		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wi	past	mawnins				tree rules
3	tangle up	infinitive	der ha'r				tree rules
4	scratch	present	en wid		um	like dey bin thoo	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on um=Location
5	dat		a brier patch one day de nigger and twel	dey bin thoo not said here			tree rules
6	set up	past · perfect · passive	low dat not said here	wid			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme en=Destination
7	keep	infinitive	en wid not said here	one eye	wid's brer		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on brer=Location
8	wuz	present	des	crowin fer			tree rules
9	jump	infinitive	des not said here			br property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	pull off	present	des not said here	wid's skin	de shape un		tree rules
11	do	infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
12	grab up	infinitive		de's hide			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme
13	turn	present	des not said here	hide			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
14	sprinkle	present	sudout'ards en	hide			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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