Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 14

He tuck off his hat en he bow, en den he tell de blacksmif who he is, en dat he done come atter 'im.

Who acts: Remus · What happens: tuck off, bow, tell, be, do, come · To what, where: hat en, de blacksmif, en dat, im · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 tuck	nsubj
2	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 tuck	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 en	nmod:poss
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	compound
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tuck	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bow	nsubj
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 den	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 den	compound
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tuck	parataxis
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 blacksmif	compound
15	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 is	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 is	nsubj
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 blacksmif	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dat	punct
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dat	compound
21	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blacksmif	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
23	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dat	acl:relcl
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	xcomp
25	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 im	nmod:poss
26	'	's	PART	_	25 atter	case
27	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tuck off	present	Remus	Remus's hat en and bow and en den	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent en=Theme
2	bow		Remus		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	Remus	de blacksmif and en dat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blacksmif=Recipient
4	be	present	Remus	de blacksmif and en dat	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme
5	do	past	Remus	en dat not said here	tree rules
6	come	infinitive	Remus not said here	atter's im	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location im=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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