Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 16

Den atterwuds, de ker'ner, he come 'roun', an' he tuck'n gin it out dat Jim died sorter accidental like.

Who acts: Den atterwuds, hump, Jim · What happens: come, gin out, die · To what, where: roun, sorter

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 (Den atterwuds, hump, Jim), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 atterwuds	compound
2	atterwuds	atterwud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ker'ner	punct
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ker'ner	compound
5	ker'ner	ker'ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 atterwuds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
10	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obj
11	',	',	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gin	det
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 gin	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gin	nsubj
15	tuck'n	tuck'n	CCONJ	_	16 gin	cc
16	gin	gin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gin	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 gin	compound:prt
19	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
20	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gin	advcl
22	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obj
23	accidental	accidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sorter	amod
24	like	like	INTJ	_	23 accidental	discourse
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Den atterwuds and de ker'ner	roun	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme
2	gin out	infinitive	hump	roun	tree rules
3	die	past	Jim	sorter	tree rules

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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