Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 7

One en all on us knows who's a pullin' at de bits Like de lead-mule dat g'ides by de rein, En yit, somehow or nudder, de bestest un us gits Mighty sick er de tuggin' at de chain.

Who acts: One en, dat · What happens: know, be, best · To what, where: de bits, pullin, un gits

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 (One en, dat), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 en	nummod
2	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	6 knows	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 all	obl
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pullin	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pullin	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pullin	det
10	pullin	pullin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 pullin	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 bits	case
13	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bits	compound
14	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knows	obl
15	Like	like	ADP	_	19 mule	case
16	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mule	amod
17	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mule	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 lead	punct
19	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bits	nmod
20	dat	dat	X	_	34 bestest	nsubj
21	g'ides	g'ide	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dat	flat
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 rein	case
23	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rein	amod
24	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dat	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 yit	punct
26	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 yit	compound
27	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dat	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 somehow	punct
29	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	20 dat	advmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 nudder	cc
31	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 somehow	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 de	punct
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 dat	flat
34	bestest	best	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knows	parataxis
35	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gits	compound
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 un	nmod
37	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bestest	obj
38	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 er	amod
39	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 er	amod
40	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gits	nmod
41	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	42 tuggin	compound
42	tuggin	tuggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 er	appos
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 tuggin	punct
44	at	at	ADP	_	46 chain	case
45	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	46 chain	compound
46	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 er	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	One en		de bits like de lead mule	all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		a pullin			tree rules
3	best	present	dat by de rein and En yit	un gits Mighty sick er at de chain			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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