Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 33
He tuck'n tuck a n'er bag en lay it down whar dish yer bag wuz, en den he crope outer de crowd en lay low in de underbresh.
Who acts: game, bag en · What happens: tuck, lie down, lie · To what, where: way, en den, de underbresh
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, bag 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tuck | nsubj |
| 2 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 3 tuck | cc |
| 3 | tuck | tuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 en | det |
| 5 | n'er | n'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | compound |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 en | compound |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tuck | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 lay | compound:prt |
| 11 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dish | amod |
| 12 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 13 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 wuz | amod |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | compound |
| 15 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 den | punct |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 den | compound |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wuz | appos |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | crope | crope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 en | amod |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 crowd | compound |
| 23 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 en | compound |
| 24 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crope | conj |
| 25 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 den | acl:relcl |
| 26 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 underbresh | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 underbresh | case |
| 28 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 underbresh | compound |
| 29 | underbresh | underbresh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | infinitive | game | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie down | past | a bag en | way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | game | en den not said here | de underbresh | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location den=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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