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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 48

Den she lay de blame on Tobe, en she say she gwineter lash 'im, en Tobe, he put out en run, de ole 'oman atter 'im.

Who acts: Den, head, de · What happens: lie, say, put out, blame · To what, where: blame, Tobe, gwineter lash, en run · 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, head, de), 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

nsubjnsubjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctoblnsubjacl:relclnsubjamodobjpunctconjpunctconjappospunctnsubjconjcompound:prtcompoundobjpunctadvmodparataxispunctcompoundnmod:posscaseconjpunctrootDenNOUNshePRONlayVERBdePRONblameNOUNonADPTobePROPN,PUNCTenNOUNshePRONsayVERBshePRONgwineterADJlashNOUN'PUNCTimNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNTobePROPN,PUNCThePRONputVERBoutADPenNOUNrunNOUN,PUNCTdeXoleADJ'PUNCTomanNOUNatterNOUN'PARTimNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DendenNOUNNumber=Sing3 laynsubj
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 laynsubj
3laylieVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4dedePRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 blamenmod:poss
5blameblameNOUNNumber=Sing3 layobj
6ononADP_7 Tobecase
7TobeTobePROPNNumber=Sing3 layobl
8,,PUNCT_9 enpunct
9enenNOUNNumber=Sing3 layobl
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saynsubj
11saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin9 enacl:relcl
12sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 gwineternsubj
13gwinetergwinetADJDegree=Cmp14 lashamod
14lashlashNOUNNumber=Sing11 sayobj
15''PUNCT_16 impunct
16imimNOUNNumber=Sing14 lashconj
17,,PUNCT_18 enpunct
18enenNOUNNumber=Sing14 lashconj
19TobeTobePROPNNumber=Sing18 enappos
20,,PUNCT_22 putpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 putnsubj
22putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 layconj
23outoutADP_22 putcompound:prt
24enenNOUNNumber=Sing25 runcompound
25runrunNOUNNumber=Sing22 putobj
26,,PUNCT_28 olepunct
27dedeXForeign=Yes28 oleadvmod
28oleoleADJDegree=Pos22 putparataxis
29''PUNCT_28 olepunct
30omanomanNOUNNumber=Sing31 attercompound
31atteratterNOUNNumber=Sing33 imnmod:poss
32''sPART_31 attercase
33imimNOUNNumber=Sing28 oleconj
34..PUNCT_3 laypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1liepastDende's blameTobeen oblvn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blame=Theme
2say speech: assertpresentheadgwineter lash and im and envn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lash=Topic
3put outpastdenen runvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent run=Goal
4blamedenom blame «communication transitive»: poss=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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