Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 86
Den, w'en I fix all dis, I put on my Sunday cloze en groun' my axe.
Who acts: Den, I · What happens: fix, put · To what, where: dis, en groun
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, I), 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 w'en | punct |
| 3 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | conj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 dis | det |
| 7 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fix | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 groun | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 groun | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 14 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 en | compound |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 groun | compound |
| 16 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 axe | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 axe | nmod:poss |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 groun | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | Den and w'en | all dis | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dis=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | past | I | my en groun and my axe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on groun=Destination |
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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