Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 10

He des tuck'n say he wuz gwineter ride dat ar roan mule er Mars John's de udder Sunday, an' de mule, she up'n do like she got nudder ingagement.

Who acts: Dat, mule · What happens: de, say, wuz, do, get · To what, where: Sunday, nudder ingagement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dat, mule), 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	2 des	nsubj
2	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 des	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wuz	nsubj
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
7	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 dat	amod
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	compound
9	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	conj
10	ar	ar	ADP	_	12 mule	case
11	roan	roan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mule	compound
12	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	nmod
13	er	er	PUNCT	_	19 Sunday	punct
14	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 John	compound
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 udder	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 John	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 udder	amod
18	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Sunday	nmod:desc
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mule	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mule	det
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 mule	punct
23	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mule	amod
24	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Sunday	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
27	up'n	up'n	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Sunday	acl:relcl
29	like	like	SCONJ	_	31 got	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 got	nsubj
31	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 do	advcl
32	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ingagement	compound
33	ingagement	ingagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 got	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 des	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	de	present	Dat			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Dat not said here		sunday	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wuz		Dat			tree rules
4	do	infinitive	mule	Sunday Mars John's de udder not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunday=Eventuality
5	get	past	mule	nudder ingagement		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ingagement=Stimulus

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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