Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 81
"Den he tuck'n squoze my han' en jump on de filly I bin savin' fer 'im, en rid off.
Who acts: Den, en · What happens: squoze, bin, rid off · To what, where: han, savin fer im
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 (Den, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 squoze | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 squoze | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 squoze | nsubj |
| 4 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 5 squoze | cc |
| 5 | squoze | squoze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 han | nmod:poss |
| 7 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squoze | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 jump | punct |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jump | compound |
| 10 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 han | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 filly | case |
| 12 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filly | compound |
| 13 | filly | filly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jump | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bin | nsubj |
| 15 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 jump | parataxis |
| 16 | savin | savin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 im | compound |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fer | punct |
| 18 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 im | compound |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fer | punct |
| 20 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bin | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rid | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rid | nsubj |
| 23 | rid | rid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 squoze | advcl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 rid | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 squoze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squoze in a quote | infinitive | Den | my han and en jump on de filly | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bin in a quote | present | en | savin fer im | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent im=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rid off in a quote | past | en | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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