Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 25
Dey perlaver'd dar, dey did, twel bimeby de Bad Man he up'n let 'im off n'er year.
Who acts: dey · What happens: do, let, im off · To what, where: twel bimeby
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 (dey), 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 | Dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perlaver | compound |
| 2 | perlaver | perlaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dar | dar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 'd | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 'd | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bimeby | punct |
| 9 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bimeby | compound |
| 10 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 bimeby | flat:foreign |
| 12 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Man | amod |
| 13 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bimeby | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 15 | up'n | up'n | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bimeby | ccomp |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 im | punct |
| 18 | im | im | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 im | compound:prt |
| 20 | n'er | n'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 year | compound |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 im | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dey | twel bimeby and Bad Man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bimeby=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | dey | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | im off | infinitive | dey not said here | year | 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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