Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 124

He had a spy-glass up dar, en w'iles I wuz a watchin' un 'im, he raise 'er up en look thoo 'er, en den he lay 'er down en fix his gun fer ter shoot.

Who acts: en, I, raise · What happens: have up, wuz, raise, look, lie, fix · To what, where: spy glass, en w'iles, thoo, en den, fer ter shoot

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 (en, I, raise), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glass	det
4	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 spy	punct
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	2 had	compound:prt
8	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 w'iles	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 w'iles	compound
11	w'iles	w'ile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dar	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 wuz	nsubj
13	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 w'iles	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 watchin	det
15	watchin	watchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 un	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 watchin	case
17	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 im	nsubj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 un	punct
19	im	im	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wuz	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raise	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raise	nsubj
22	raise	raise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	nsubj
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 raise	punct
24	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 en	advmod
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 er	compound:prt
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	nsubj
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
28	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obj
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 thoo	punct
30	er	er	INTJ	_	35 lay	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 den	punct
32	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 den	compound
33	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 look	parataxis
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	40 fix	punct
37	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 en	advmod
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 er	compound:prt
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fix	nsubj
40	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 lay	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 shoot	nmod:poss
42	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fer	compound
43	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shoot	compound
44	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shoot	compound
45	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fix	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have up	past	en	a spy glass	tree rules
2	wuz	present	I	en w'iles not said here	tree rules
3	raise		en		tree rules
4	look	infinitive	raise	thoo	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thoo=Attribute
5	lie	past	en	en den	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fix	infinitive	en	en's fer ter shoot	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoot=Patient

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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