Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 31
"No sooner did de blacksmif git back on de groun' dan he 'gun ter wuk his way outer de bag.
Who acts: game · What happens: do, wuk · To what, where: blacksmif git, way
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), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 blacksmif | compound |
| 6 | blacksmif | blacksmif | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 git | compound |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 groun | case |
| 10 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 groun | compound |
| 11 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dan | obl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 groun | punct |
| 13 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wuk | nsubj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wuk | punct |
| 16 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | compound |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuk | nsubj |
| 18 | wuk | wuk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dan | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wuk | obj |
| 21 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bag | amod |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 bag | compound |
| 23 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 way | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | blacksmif git | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wuk in a quote | past | game | game's way and outer de bag | 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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