Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 136

"I gin 'im dem," said Uncle Remus, pointing to Mrs. Huntingdon, "en I gin 'im deze"--holding up his own brawny arms. "

Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: gin, say, point, hold up · To what, where: im dem, Mrs., im deze, own brawny arms · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uncle Remus), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gin	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gin	nsubj
3	gin	gin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dem	punct
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dem	amod
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gin	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gin	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gin	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pointing	punct
13	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Mrs.	case
15	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 pointing	obl
16	Huntingdon	Huntingdon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mrs.	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Mrs.	appos
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gin	nsubj
21	gin	gin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 en	acl:relcl
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 deze	punct
23	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deze	amod
24	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gin	obj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 deze	punct
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 holding	punct
27	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 pointing	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 holding	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 arms	amod
31	brawny	brawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 arms	amod
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 holding	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	gin in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus	im dem		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	point	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here		Mrs.	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient
4	gin in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus	im deze		tree rules
5	hold up	gerund	Uncle Remus not said here	en's own brawny arms		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot arm=Theme

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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