Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 42
Den he go down ter de Bad Place, en knock.
Who acts: you · What happens: den, go down · To what, where: Remus
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 (you), 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 | Den | den | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Den | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Den | xcomp |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | vocative |
| 6 | de | de | ADP | _ | 8 Place | case |
| 7 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Place | amod |
| 8 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knock | punct |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knock | compound |
| 11 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Place | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Den | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | den | imperative | you not said here | Remus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | you not said here | de Bad Place and en knock; ter vocative; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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