Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 34

"Las', w'en de time come fer ter go, de Ole Boy up wid his bag en slung her on his shoulder, en off he put fer de Bad Place.

Who acts: w'en time, Ole Boy, bag en, game · What happens: come, go, wi, sling, put · To what, where: fer ter, darkey, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (w'en time, Ole Boy, bag en, 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	_	7 come	punct
2	Las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 w'en	nmod:poss
3	',	',	PART	_	2 Las	case
4	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	compound
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 w'en	flat:foreign
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 ter	amod
9	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wid	punct
12	de	de	ADP	_	16 wid	mark
13	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Boy	compound
14	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wid	nsubj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 Boy	compound:prt
16	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 en	nmod:poss
18	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 en	compound
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slung	nsubj
20	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wid	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 slung	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 shoulder	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulder	nmod:poss
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 en	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shoulder	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	29 put	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 slung	advcl
30	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 put	xcomp
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	30 fer	conj
32	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Place	amod
33	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 de	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive	w'en time	fer ter			tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	w'en time not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wi in a quote	past	Ole Boy				tree rules
4	sling in a quote	past	game's bag en	darkey	game's shoulder and en		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on shoulder=Destination
5	put in a quote	past	game			f property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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