Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 13
He done hide his hawns, en his tail, en his hoof, en he come dress up like w'ite fokes.
Who acts: Remus, hoof · What happens: do, hide, come, dress up · To what, where: hawns, en
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: who acts (Remus, hoof), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 done | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 done | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hawns | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hawns | hawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hawns | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 en | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hawns | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 en | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoof | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 dress | compound:prt |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 fokes | case |
| 21 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fokes | compound |
| 22 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dress | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Remus | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hide | infinitive | Remus not said here | Remus's hawns and en and en | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | Remus's hoof and en | en not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dress up | infinitive | Remus's hoof and en not said here | like w'ite fokes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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