Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 32
He crope out, he did, en den he tuck'n change de bag.
Who acts: game · What happens: crope out, do, den, change · To what, where: de bag
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crope | nsubj |
| 2 | crope | crope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 crope | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crope | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 den | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 den | compound |
| 9 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crope | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 den | nsubj |
| 11 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 12 change | cc |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 crope | conj |
| 13 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bag | compound |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crope out | infinitive | game | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | game | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | den | game | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | change | infinitive | game not said here | de bag | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
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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