Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 19

W'en de Bad Man got in de do', de blacksmif wuz poundin' 'way at a hoss-shoe, but he wa'n't so bizzy dat he didn't ax 'im in.

Who acts: W'en Man, man, dat · What happens: get, wa', not ax, im in · To what, where: poundin way, de, bizzy dat

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 (W'en Man, man, dat), 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	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Man	compound
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 W'en	flat
3	Bad	Bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 W'en	flat
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 de	case
7	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ',	aux
9	',	',	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 poundin	compound
11	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poundin	compound
12	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poundin	compound
13	poundin	poundin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	compound
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 poundin	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 poundin	punct
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 shoe	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shoe	det
19	hoss	hoss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoe	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 hoss	punct
21	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 way	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wa'	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 wa'	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wa'	nsubj
25	wa'	wa'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 bizzy	advmod
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 bizzy	advmod
28	bizzy	bizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dat	amod
29	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wa'	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 ax	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ax	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 ax	advmod
33	ax	ax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wa'	ccomp
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 im	punct
35	im	im	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 ax	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	35 im	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	W'en Man	poundin way at a hoss shoe	de	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	wa'	past	man	bizzy dat		tree rules
3	not ax	past · do-support	dat			tree rules
4	im in	participle	dat not said here			tree rules

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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