Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 22
So den de blacksmif gun de wud, en de Bad Man sa'nter off down de big road, settin' traps en layin' his progance fer ter ketch mo' sinners.
Who acts: den de wud · What happens: trap · To what, where: en layin
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 wud), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 wud | advmod |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wud | compound |
| 3 | de | de | ADP | _ | 5 gun | case |
| 4 | blacksmif | blacksmif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gun | compound |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 den | nmod |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 wud | compound |
| 7 | wud | wud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 traps | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wud | conj |
| 10 | de | de | ADP | _ | 13 sa'nter | case |
| 11 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sa'nter | amod |
| 12 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sa'nter | compound |
| 13 | sa'nter | sa'nter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wud | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 sa'nter | compound:prt |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 road | advmod |
| 16 | de | de | ADV | _ | 18 road | advmod |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wud | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 settin | punct |
| 20 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 road | appos |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 settin | punct |
| 22 | traps | trap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 layin | compound |
| 24 | layin | layin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 traps | obj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 layin | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 mo | nmod:poss |
| 27 | progance | progance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fer | compound |
| 28 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ter | compound |
| 29 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ketch | compound |
| 30 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mo | compound |
| 31 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sinners | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 mo | case |
| 33 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 traps | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 traps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | present | den de wud and en and Bad Man sa'nter and big road | en layin | 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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