Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 74

He des stop long nuff fer ter change hosses en snatch a mouffle er sump'n ter eat, but 'fo' he rid off, he call me up en say, sez he:

Who acts: Putmon, long nuff fer, ter, en · What happens: stop, snatch, eat, rid off, call up, say · To what, where: mouffle er, me, Putmon · 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 (Putmon, long nuff fer, ter, en), 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	3 stop	nsubj
2	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stop	det
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fer	amod
5	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	compound
6	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snatch	nsubj
7	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 change	compound
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hosses	compound
9	hosses	hoss	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 en	compound
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	conj
11	snatch	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 er	det
13	mouffle	mouffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	compound
14	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snatch	obj
15	sump'n	sump'n	CCONJ	_	16 ter	cc
16	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 er	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 call	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 call	cc
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fo	punct
21	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	24 rid	mark
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 fo	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rid	nsubj
24	rid	rid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 call	advcl
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 rid	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rid	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 call	nsubj
28	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 call	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 call	compound:prt
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 say	nsubj
32	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 call	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sez	punct
34	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 say	ccomp
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sez	obj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stop	present	Putmon			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	snatch	present	long nuff fer and hosses en	a mouffle er		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Theme
3	eat	present	ter	a mouffle er not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=Patient
4	rid off	past	Putmon			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	call up speech: assert	infinitive	Putmon		me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	say speech: assert	present	en			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	say speech: assert	present		Putmon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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