Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 15

Den de black-smif, he gun ter cry en beg, en he beg so hard en he cry so loud dat de Bad Man say he make a trade wid 'im.

Who acts: Remus, gun · What happens: gun, cry, beg, say, make · To what, where: en beg, Den black smif, loud 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, gun), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smif	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smif	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 black	punct
5	smif	smif	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beg	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gun	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gun	nsubj
8	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smif	appos
9	ter	ter	PART	_	10 cry	mark
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gun	acl
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beg	compound
12	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beg	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 beg	nsubj
16	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 en	amod
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beg	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cry	nsubj
21	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 beg	parataxis
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 loud	advmod
23	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dat	amod
24	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cry	obj
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 dat	flat:foreign
26	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Man	amod
27	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dat	conj
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cry	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	nsubj
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 say	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wid	det
32	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wid	compound
33	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 im	nmod:poss
34	'	's	PART	_	33 wid	case
35	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gun		Remus			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	gun not said here	en beg		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beg=Topic
3	beg speech: request	present	Remus	Den black smif	en obl	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent en=Recipient
4	cry speech: express	present	Remus	loud dat and Bad Man		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Topic
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	Remus not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	make	infinitive	Remus	a trade wid's im		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent im=Product

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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