Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 26

"Well, den, dat year pass same ez t'er one.

Who acts: den · What happens: pass · To what, where: same ez

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), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 den	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 den	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 year	punct
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 year	compound
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 den	nmod
8	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ez	amod
10	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pass	obj
11	t'er	t'er	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pass	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass in a quote	present	den dat year	same ez				t'er one	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ez=Trajectory

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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