Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 2

But des todes de las' Good gits de knee-lock, En dey draps ter de groun'--ker flop!

Who acts: En dey · What happens: drap · To what, where: ter de groun

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 gits	cc
2	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 todes	det
3	todes	tode	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gits	nsubj
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 todes	flat:foreign
5	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gits	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 las	case
7	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gits	amod
8	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	de	de	ADP	_	12 lock	case
10	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lock	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 knee	punct
12	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gits	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 draps	punct
14	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dey	compound
15	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draps	nsubj
16	draps	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gits	conj
17	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groun	compound
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 groun	compound
19	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draps	obj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 groun	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 flop	punct
22	ker	k	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 flop	amod
23	flop	flop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 draps	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 gits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drap	present	En dey	ter de groun				ker flop obl	tree rules

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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