Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 28
De blacksmif cry en he holler, en he rip 'roun' en t'ar his ha'r, but hit des like he didn't, kase de Bad Man grab 'im up en cram 'im in a bag en tote 'im off.
Who acts: De blacksmif, Mont, Man grab · What happens: cry, holler, t'ar, hit, de, not do · To what, where: de, en, en tote
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 (De blacksmif, Mont, Man grab), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blacksmif | compound |
| 2 | blacksmif | blacksmif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holler | compound |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 holler | nsubj |
| 6 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holler | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 t'ar | nsubj |
| 10 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 t'ar | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 12 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 t'ar | compound |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 roun | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 t'ar | compound |
| 15 | t'ar | t'ar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holler | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ha'r | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ha'r | ha'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 t'ar | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hit | cc |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cry | advcl |
| 21 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hit | conj |
| 22 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 des | advcl |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 did | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kase | punct |
| 27 | kase | kase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cry | conj |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 kase | obl |
| 29 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Man | amod |
| 30 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grab | compound |
| 31 | grab | grab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kase | obj |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 im | punct |
| 33 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 grab | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 im | compound:prt |
| 35 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 im | obj |
| 36 | cram | cram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 en | appos |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 im | punct |
| 38 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cram | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 tote | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 tote | det |
| 41 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 en | compound |
| 42 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 tote | compound |
| 43 | tote | tote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 im | nmod |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 im | punct |
| 45 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 tote | acl |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 im | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | infinitive | De blacksmif | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | holler speech: other | Mont | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | t'ar | Mont | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hit | past | De blacksmif not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | de | present | De blacksmif not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not do | past | Mont | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | kase | infinitive | De blacksmif not said here | de | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | im up | participle | Man grab not said here | en | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | im off | participle | a en tote not said here | 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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