Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 56
Den a squinch-owl lit on de koam er de house, en de nigger jam de shovel in de fier en make 'im flew away.
Who acts: you, make · What happens: den, lit, fly away · To what, where: squinch owl, de koam, de fier en
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 (you, make), 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 | Den | den | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 owl | det |
| 3 | squinch | squinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owl | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 squinch | punct |
| 5 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | obj |
| 6 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 owl | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 koam | case |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 koam | compound |
| 9 | koam | koam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lit | obl |
| 10 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 house | amod |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 er | flat:foreign |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 koam | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 koam | conj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 en | flat:foreign |
| 16 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jam | compound |
| 17 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 de | compound |
| 18 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shovel | compound |
| 19 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 koam | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 en | case |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 en | compound |
| 22 | fier | fi | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 en | amod |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lit | obl |
| 24 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 flew | punct |
| 26 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 en | acl:relcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 flew | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | den | imperative | you not said here | a squinch owl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | a squinch owl not said here | de koam and en and de shovel | in de fier en | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fly away | past | make | de fier en not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location en=Theme |
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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