Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 16

"'Bout dat time Sis Tempy, she lipt up in de a'r, an' sing out dat she done gone an tromple on de Ole Boy, an' she kep' on lippin' up an' slingin' out 'er han's twel bimeby--blip!--she tuck Sis Becky in de mouf, an' den Sis Becky riz an' fetch a grab at Sis Tempy, an' I 'clar' ter grashus ef didn't 'pear ter me like she got a poun' er wool.

Who acts: dey, Becky riz, grashus ef · What happens: lipt up, sing out, go, kep, tuck, fetch · To what, where: de a'r, tromple, Sis Becky, de mouf, grab, Sis Tempy

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dey, Becky riz, grashus ef), 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	_	10 lipt	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
3	Bout	Bout	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lipt	obl:unmarked
6	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 time	appos
7	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Sis	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lipt	nsubj
10	lipt	lipt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lipt	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 a'r	case
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 a'r	compound
14	a'r	a'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lipt	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dat	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dat	det
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dat	compound
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 sing	compound:prt
20	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 a'r	appos
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gone	nsubj
22	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 dat	acl:relcl
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 tromple	det
25	tromple	tromple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 Boy	case
27	de	de	ADP	_	29 Boy	case
28	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Boy	compound
29	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lippin	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lippin	det
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 kep	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kep	nsubj
34	kep	kep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 lippin	compound
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 kep	punct
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 lippin	case
37	lippin	lippin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 a'r	appos
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 lippin	punct
39	up	up	ADP	_	42 slingin	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 slingin	det
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 slingin	punct
42	slingin	slingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lipt	obl
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 slingin	punct
44	out	out	ADV	_	10 lipt	advmod
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 lipt	punct
46	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 han	amod
47	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bimeby	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 han	case
49	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bimeby	compound
50	bimeby	bimeby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lipt	parataxis
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 blip	punct
52	blip	blip	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bimeby	conj
53	!	!	PUNCT	_	50 bimeby	punct
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 tuck	punct
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 tuck	nsubj
56	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 bimeby	parataxis
57	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Becky	compound
58	Becky	Becky	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 tuck	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 mouf	case
60	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	61 mouf	compound
61	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 tuck	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 den	punct
63	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 den	det
64	'	'	PUNCT	_	65 den	punct
65	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 mouf	conj
66	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 Becky	compound
67	Becky	Becky	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 riz	compound
68	riz	riz	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 mouf	conj
69	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 fetch	det
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	71 fetch	punct
71	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 riz	acl
72	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 grab	det
73	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 fetch	obj
74	at	at	ADP	_	76 Tempy	case
75	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	76 Tempy	compound
76	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 fetch	obl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 I	punct
78	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	80 I	det
79	'	'	PUNCT	_	80 I	punct
80	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	76 Tempy	conj
81	'	'	PUNCT	_	80 I	punct
82	clar	clar	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 I	appos
83	'	'	PUNCT	_	89 '	punct
84	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 grashus	compound
85	grashus	grashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 ef	compound
86	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 '	nsubj
87	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	89 '	aux
88	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	89 '	advmod
89	'	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	82 clar	conj
90	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 '	obj
91	ter	ter	ADP	_	92 me	case
92	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	89 '	obl
93	like	like	SCONJ	_	95 got	mark
94	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	95 got	nsubj
95	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	89 '	advcl
96	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	97 poun	det
97	poun	poun	NOUN	Number=Sing	100 wool	nmod:poss
98	'	's	PART	_	97 poun	case
99	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	100 wool	compound
100	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	95 got	obj
101	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lipt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lipt up in a quote	past	dey		de a'r	time	up a slingin; out property	tree rules
2	sing out speech: express in a quote	infinitive						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in a quote	past · do-support	dey	a tromple			on Ole Boy	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tromple=Theme
4	kep in a quote	infinitive	dey					tree rules
5	tuck in a quote	infinitive	dey	Sis Becky	de mouf and a den and Becky riz			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent becky=Theme in mouf=Trajectory
6	fetch in a quote	infinitive	Becky riz not said here	a grab	Sis Tempy			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent grab=Theme at tempy=Asset
7	not ' in a quote	past · do-support	grashus ef	pear			ter Brer	tree rules
8	get in a quote	past	dey	a poun's er wool				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wool=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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