Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 114

Den dey commence gittin' thinner en thinner, en den atter w'ile we hear skummishin' in de naberhood er Armer's fe'y, en Ole Miss 'low how dat wuz Wheeler's men makin' persoot.

Who acts: Den dey, we · What happens: commence, hear · To what, where: gittin thinner en, atter w'ile, de naberhood

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den dey, we), 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dey	compound
2	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commence	nsubj
3	commence	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 en	compound
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 gittin	punct
6	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 en	amod
7	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 commence	obj
8	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 commence	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 w'ile	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 den	compound
11	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 atter	compound
12	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'ile	compound
13	w'ile	w'ile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obl
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 commence	parataxis
16	skummishin	skummishin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 hear	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 naberhood	case
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 naberhood	compound
20	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hear	obl
21	er	er	ADP	_	24 fe'y	case
22	Armer	Armer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fe'y	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Armer	case
24	fe'y	fe'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 naberhood	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 en	punct
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fe'y	conj
27	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Miss	compound
28	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 wuz	nmod:poss
29	'	's	PART	_	28 Miss	case
30	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wuz	amod
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 dat	advmod
32	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wuz	amod
33	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fe'y	conj
34	Wheeler	Wheeler	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 wuz	appos
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Wheeler	case
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wuz	conj
37	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 persoot	nmod:poss
38	'	's	PART	_	37 makin	case
39	persoot	persoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 men	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	present	Den dey	gittin thinner en				thin property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Eventuality
2	hear	present	we	atter w'ile		de naberhood er Armer's fe'y and en and Ole Miss's low dat wuz and men makin's persoot			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer skummishin=Stimulus

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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