Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 85
I tuck'n got all de cattle en hosses tergedder en driv' um ter de fo'-mile place, en I tuck all de corn en fodder en w'eat, en put um in a crib out dar in de woods; en I bilt me a pen in de swamp, en dar I put de hogs.
Who acts: I, de corn en, en · What happens: get, tuck, w'eat, put out, bilt, put · To what, where: cattle en hosses, en, um, crib, me, de swamp
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 (I, de corn en, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | tuck'n | tuck'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hosses | amod |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hosses | compound |
| 8 | hosses | hoss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 9 | tergedder | tergedder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | compound |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driv | compound |
| 11 | driv | driv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hosses | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ter | punct |
| 13 | um | um | X | _ | 14 ter | compound |
| 14 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driv | appos |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 ter | flat:foreign |
| 16 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 20 place | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ' | punct |
| 19 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ter | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 en | punct |
| 22 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | conj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 tuck | nsubj |
| 24 | tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 en | acl:relcl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 w'eat | det |
| 26 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 en | amod |
| 27 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 en | compound |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'eat | nsubj |
| 29 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 en | compound |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'eat | compound |
| 31 | w'eat | w'eat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 en | punct |
| 33 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'eat | conj |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 en | acl |
| 35 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 put | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 crib | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 crib | det |
| 38 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 put | obl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 put | compound:prt |
| 40 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 put | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 woods | case |
| 42 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 woods | compound |
| 43 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 put | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 en | punct |
| 45 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'eat | conj |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 bilt | nsubj |
| 47 | bilt | bilt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 en | acl:relcl |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 bilt | obj |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 pen | det |
| 50 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 bilt | obj |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 swamp | case |
| 52 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 swamp | amod |
| 53 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 bilt | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 dar | punct |
| 55 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 dar | compound |
| 56 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 en | conj |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 58 put | nsubj |
| 58 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 dar | acl:relcl |
| 59 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 hogs | compound |
| 60 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 put | obj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | cattle en hosses and en driv | all, de property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hoss=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | tuck | present | I | en not said here | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent en=Theme | ||||
| 3 | w'eat | de corn en | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | put out | participle | en not said here | um | a crib | in de woods | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent um=Asset dar=Goal | ||
| 5 | bilt | past | I | me | de swamp | tree rules | |||
| 6 | put | past | I | de hogs | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hog=Goal |
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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