Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 11

He say his ole 'oman sick, en his chilluns col', en de fier done gone out.

Who acts: den, chilluns, en · What happens: say, col, do, go out · To what, where: oman, en · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (den, chilluns, 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	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ole	nmod:poss
4	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oman	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 ole	case
6	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 oman	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 en	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 oman	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 chilluns	nmod:poss
11	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 col	nsubj
12	col	col	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 en	acl:relcl
13	',	',	PART	_	12 col	dep
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 fier	compound
16	fier	fier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gone	nsubj
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 gone	advcl
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 col	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 gone	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	den	den's ole's oman and en	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oman=Topic
2	col	present	den's chilluns	en not said here	tree rules
3	do	participle	en not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go out	participle	en		vn interact-36.6 «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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