Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 15

And then, without waiting for a reply: "Miss Sally, she sick in bed, en Mars John, he bleedzd ter go in de country, en dey tuck'n sont me.

Who acts: John, ter, dey tuck'n · What happens: wait, bleedz, go, sont · To what, where: de country, Vermont · 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 (John, ter, dey tuck'n), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 waiting	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 waiting	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 waiting	mark
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 bleedzd	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reply	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reply	det
8	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Sally	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Sally	punct
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Sally	compound
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reply	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sick	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sick	nsubj
15	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Sally	amod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sick	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Sally	conj
20	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 John	compound
21	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 en	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bleedzd	nsubj
24	bleedzd	bleedz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 go	nsubj
26	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 bleedzd	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 country	compound
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sont	punct
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dey	compound
32	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tuck'n	compound
33	tuck'n	tuck'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sont	nsubj
34	sont	sont	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bleedzd	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sont	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 bleedzd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	John not said here			then	for a reply	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bleedz in a quote	past	John					tree rules
3	go in a quote	present	ter		de country			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in country=Location
4	sont in a quote	past	dey tuck'n	Vermont				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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