Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 46
"En dey do say," continued Uncle Remus, with unction, "dat sense dat day de blacksmif bin sorter huv'rin' 'roun' 'twix' de heavens en de ye'th, en dark nights he shine out so fokes call 'im Jacky-my-lantern.
Who acts: En dey, roun, fokes · What happens: say, continue, night, shine out, call · To what, where: Uncle Remus · 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 (En dey, roun, fokes), 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 | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 2 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dey | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dey | punct |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Remus | compound |
| 10 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unction | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 unction | case |
| 13 | unction | unction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 16 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 17 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 18 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 day | flat:foreign |
| 21 | blacksmif | blacksmif | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 huv'rin | amod |
| 22 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sorter | compound |
| 23 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 huv'rin | compound |
| 24 | huv'rin | huv'rin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | conj |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 huv'rin | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 roun | punct |
| 27 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 nights | nsubj |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 roun | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 twix | punct |
| 30 | twix | twix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 roun | conj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 twix | punct |
| 32 | de | de | ADP | _ | 34 en | case |
| 33 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 en | compound |
| 34 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 twix | nmod |
| 35 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 36 ye'th | compound |
| 36 | ye'th | ye'th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 en | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 en | punct |
| 38 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 roun | conj |
| 39 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 nights | amod |
| 40 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 huv'rin | nmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 shine | nsubj |
| 42 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 nights | parataxis |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 shine | compound:prt |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 call | advmod |
| 45 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 call | nsubj |
| 46 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 shine | advcl |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 Jacky | punct |
| 48 | im | im | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Jacky | amod |
| 49 | Jacky | Jacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 call | xcomp |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 lantern | punct |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 lantern | nmod:poss |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 lantern | punct |
| 53 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Jacky | appos |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | En dey not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | En dey | Uncle Remus | day | with unction | tree rules | ||
| 3 | night in a quote | roun and twix de heavens en and de ye'th and en | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | shine out in a quote | infinitive | roun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | call in a quote | present | fokes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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