Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 27
Mont' in en mont' out dat man wuz rollin' in dram, en bimeby yer come de Bad Man.
Who acts: en · What happens: come
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 (en), 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 | Mont | Mont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mont | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mont | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 en | case |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mont | compound |
| 5 | mont | mont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rollin | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mont | punct |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 dat | advmod |
| 8 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rollin | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wuz | compound |
| 10 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rollin | compound |
| 11 | rollin | rollin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 rollin | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dram | case |
| 14 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rollin | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 en | punct |
| 16 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rollin | conj |
| 17 | bimeby | bimeby | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 18 | yer | y | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 en | acl:relcl |
| 20 | de | de | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Man | amod |
| 22 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | vocative |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rollin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | en not said here | Bad Man vocative; bimeby property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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