Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 12
"De Bad Man, honey; de Ole Boy hisse'f right fresh from de ridjun w'at you year Miss Sally readin' 'bout.
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Man | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | compound |
| 3 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Man | compound |
| 4 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 year | nmod:poss |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 honey | punct |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hisse'f | punct |
| 8 | de | de | ADP | _ | 11 hisse'f | case |
| 9 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hisse'f | amod |
| 10 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hisse'f | compound |
| 11 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Man | appos |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 fresh | advmod |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hisse'f | amod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 w'at | case |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 w'at | compound |
| 16 | ridjun | ridjun | X | _ | 17 w'at | compound |
| 17 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fresh | obl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Man | nmod |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 readin | nsubj |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 readin | compound |
| 21 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 readin | compound |
| 22 | readin | readin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 readin | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 readin | punct |
| 25 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 readin | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 readin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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