Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 131
En den atter dat, me en Miss Sally tuck en nuss de man right straight along.
Who acts: En atter dat, en nuss · What happens: tuck, man
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 atter dat, en nuss), 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 atter | compound |
| 3 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | compound |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tuck | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 en | compound |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | conj |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 en | appos |
| 9 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Miss | flat |
| 10 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nuss | compound |
| 12 | nuss | nuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nsubj |
| 13 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 man | compound |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tuck | ccomp |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 along | advmod |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 along | advmod |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 tuck | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | present | En atter dat and me en | along property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | man | en nuss | 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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