Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 30
He lines in en he talk politics same like t'er fokes, twel bimeby dinnertime come 'roun', en dey ax 'im up, w'ich 'greed wid his stummuck, en he pozzit his bag underneed de table 'longside de udder bags w'at de hongry fokes'd brung.
Who acts: game, greed, stummuck · What happens: line, talk, come, im up, wi, pozzit · To what, where: politics, roun dey ax, w'ich, de table
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 (game, greed, stummuck), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lines | nsubj |
| 2 | lines | line | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 en | case |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lines | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 talk | nsubj |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lines | parataxis |
| 7 | politics | politics | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 talk | obj |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 talk | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 fokes | case |
| 10 | t'er | t'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fokes | compound |
| 11 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 talk | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dinnertime | punct |
| 13 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bimeby | compound |
| 14 | bimeby | bimeby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dinnertime | compound |
| 15 | dinnertime | dinnertime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fokes | conj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lines | parataxis |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 18 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ax | compound |
| 19 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 18 roun | punct |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dey | compound |
| 21 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ax | compound |
| 22 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 im | punct |
| 24 | im | im | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ax | acl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 im | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 w'ich | punct |
| 27 | w'ich | w'ich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ax | conj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 wid | punct |
| 29 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wid | nsubj |
| 30 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 w'ich | acl:relcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 stummuck | nmod:poss |
| 32 | stummuck | stummuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pozzit | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 en | punct |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stummuck | conj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pozzit | nsubj |
| 36 | pozzit | pozzit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wid | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 table | nmod:poss |
| 38 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 underneed | compound |
| 39 | underneed | underneed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 de | compound |
| 40 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 table | compound |
| 41 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pozzit | obj |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 longside | punct |
| 43 | longside | longside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pozzit | obl |
| 44 | de | de | ADP | _ | 46 bags | case |
| 45 | udder | udder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bags | compound |
| 46 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 longside | nmod |
| 47 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 longside | appos |
| 48 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 w'at | conj |
| 49 | hongry | hongry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 fokes | amod |
| 50 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 brung | nmod:poss |
| 51 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 50 fokes | case |
| 52 | brung | brung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 de | appos |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line | present | game | in en | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in en=Theme | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | game | politics | like t'er fokes and bimeby dinnertime; same property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent politics=Patient | |||
| 3 | come | infinitive | roun dey ax and w'ich | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | im up | participle | roun dey ax and w'ich not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wi | past | greed | w'ich not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pozzit | past | game's stummuck and en | game's de table | longside de udder bags obl | 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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