Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 36
Leas'ways dey des swawm'd 'roun', hollerin' out:
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leas'ways | leas'way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dey | compound |
| 2 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swawm | compound |
| 3 | des | des | X | _ | 4 swawm | compound |
| 4 | swawm | swawm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roun | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 roun | aux |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
| 7 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 9 hollerin | punct |
| 9 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roun | conj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hollerin | punct |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 hollerin | compound |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 roun | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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