Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 17
De man w'at sot in de cheer couldn't git up less'n de blacksmif let 'im, en de man w'at pick up de sludge 'ud hatter keep on knockin' wid it twel de blacksmif say quit; en den he gun 'im money plenty, en off he put.
Who acts: De w'at sot, de sludge, twel, sot · What happens: not git up, let, pick up, keep, wi, say · To what, where: less'n blacksmif, im, knockin, quit, en · 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 (De w'at sot, de sludge, twel, sot), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sot | compound |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w'at | compound |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sot | compound |
| 4 | sot | sot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cheer | case |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheer | amod |
| 7 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sot | nmod |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 git | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 git | advmod |
| 10 | git | git | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 git | compound:prt |
| 12 | less'n | less'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 blacksmif | amod |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 less'n | flat |
| 14 | blacksmif | blacksmif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | obj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 git | parataxis |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 im | punct |
| 17 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 let | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 en | punct |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 im | conj |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 im | flat:foreign |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 w'at | compound |
| 22 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 23 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 pick | compound:prt |
| 25 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sludge | amod |
| 26 | sludge | sludge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 keep | nsubj |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 hatter | punct |
| 28 | ud | ud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hatter | compound |
| 29 | hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sludge | conj |
| 30 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pick | parataxis |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 knockin | case |
| 32 | knockin | knockin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wid | obl |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 wid | punct |
| 34 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 keep | ccomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wid | obj |
| 36 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 say | nsubj |
| 37 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 twel | flat:foreign |
| 38 | blacksmif | blacksmif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 twel | conj |
| 39 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wid | parataxis |
| 40 | quit | quit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 say | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 den | punct |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 den | compound |
| 43 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | parataxis |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 gun | nsubj |
| 45 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 den | conj |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 plenty | punct |
| 47 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 plenty | amod |
| 48 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 plenty | compound |
| 49 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gun | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 en | punct |
| 51 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 plenty | conj |
| 52 | off | off | ADP | _ | 54 put | mark |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 put | nsubj |
| 54 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 en | acl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 git | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not git up | could | De w'at sot in de cheer | less'n blacksmif | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | im and en | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent im=Recipient w'at=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pick up | infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | keep | present | de sludge and ud hatter | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wi | past | de sludge and ud hatter not said here | im | knockin | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | twel and blacksmif | quit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quit=Topic | ||||
| 7 | gun | sot | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | put | past | sot | en not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent en=Goal |
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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