Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 21

Den de blacksmif, he 'gun ter poke fun at de Bad Man, en he ax him don't he want a dram, en won't he hitch his cheer up little nigher de fier, en de Bad Man, he beg en he beg, but 'twan't doin' no good, kase de blacksmif 'low dat he gwineter keep 'im dar twel he prommus dat he let 'im off one year mo', en, sho nuff, de Bad Man prommus dat ef de black-smif let 'im up he give 'im a n'er showin'.

Who acts: Den, de Man, man, dram, twa, dat gwineter · What happens: poke, ax, do, not want, not hitch, cheer up · To what, where: fun, ter, nigher de fier, prommus dat, mo en, n'er showin

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 (Den, de Man, man, dram), 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	9 poke	nsubj
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Den	flat:foreign
3	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Den	list
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 poke	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 poke	punct
7	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ter	compound
8	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 poke	nsubj
9	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poke	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 Man	case
12	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Man	compound
13	Bad	Bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 de	flat
14	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ax	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Man	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ax	nsubj
18	ax	ax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 poke	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ax	obj
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ax	conj
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 want	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 do	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dram	det
25	dram	dram	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hitch	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 en	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dram	conj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hitch	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hitch	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hitch	nsubj
31	hitch	hitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 want	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cheer	nmod:poss
33	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hitch	ccomp
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 cheer	compound:prt
35	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 nigher	advmod
36	nigher	nigh	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 fier	amod
37	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 fier	compound
38	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cheer	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 en	punct
40	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fier	conj
41	de	de	ADP	_	43 Man	case
42	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Man	amod
43	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 en	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 beg	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 beg	nsubj
46	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	33 cheer	conj
47	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 beg	compound
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 beg	nsubj
49	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 beg	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 gwineter	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	67 gwineter	cc
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	53 twa	punct
53	twa	twa	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 gwineter	nsubj
54	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 doin	advmod
55	doin	doin	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 twa	conj
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	53 twa	punct
57	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	60 kase	det
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 kase	amod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 kase	punct
60	kase	kase	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 gwineter	nsubj
61	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	62 blacksmif	compound
62	blacksmif	blacksmif	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 gwineter	nsubj
63	'	'	PUNCT	_	62 blacksmif	punct
64	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 dat	amod
65	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 gwineter	compound
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 gwineter	nsubj
67	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poke	obl
68	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 gwineter	acl
69	'	'	PUNCT	_	75 dat	punct
70	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 twel	amod
71	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 twel	amod
72	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 dat	nsubj
73	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 dat	nsubj
74	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 dat	compound
75	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 keep	obj
76	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 let	nsubj
77	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	75 dat	acl:relcl
78	'	'	PUNCT	_	79 im	punct
79	im	im	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	77 let	xcomp
80	off	off	ADP	_	79 im	compound:prt
81	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	83 mo	nummod
82	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 mo	compound
83	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 en	compound
84	',	',	PART	_	83 mo	dep
85	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 im	obl
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	88 nuff	punct
87	sho	sho	NOUN	_	88 nuff	compound
88	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 en	conj
89	,	,	PUNCT	_	95 ef	punct
90	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	95 ef	nsubj
91	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	95 ef	amod
92	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	93 prommus	compound
93	prommus	prommus	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 ef	compound
94	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 ef	compound
95	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 dat	conj
96	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	95 ef	flat:foreign
97	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	99 smif	amod
98	-	-	PUNCT	_	97 black	punct
99	smif	smif	NOUN	Number=Sing	100 let	compound
100	let	let	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 ef	conj
101	'	'	PUNCT	_	102 im	punct
102	im	im	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	100 let	acl
103	up	up	ADP	_	102 im	compound:prt
104	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	105 give	nsubj
105	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	102 im	conj
106	'	'	PUNCT	_	110 showin	punct
107	im	im	ADP	_	110 showin	case
108	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	110 showin	det
109	n'er	n'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	110 showin	compound
110	showin	showin	NOUN	Number=Sing	105 give	obj
111	'	'	PUNCT	_	110 showin	punct
112	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 poke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	poke	present	Den	fun	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fun=Theme
2	ax	infinitive	de Man and en	ter	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	de Man and en not said here		tree rules
4	not want	infinitive	man		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	not hitch	future	a dram and en		tree rules
6	cheer up	present	a dram and en not said here	nigher de fier and en de Bad Man	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fier=Patient
7	beg speech: request	present	man		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
8	beg speech: request		man		tree rules
9	gwineter		twa and doin		tree rules
10	keep	infinitive	dat gwineter not said here		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	dat		im dar twel		tree rules
12	let	past	man	prommus dat and Bad prommus dat ef and smif let not said here	tree rules
13	im off	infinitive	prommus dat and Bad prommus dat ef and smif let not said here	mo en and sho nuff	tree rules
14	ef		de		tree rules
15	im up	infinitive	smif let not said here		tree rules
16	give	infinitive	man	a n'er showin	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent showin=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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