Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 8
I des tuck'n draw'd out.
Who acts: des · What happens: draw, ' out
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 (des), 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 | 2 des | nsubj |
| 2 | des | des | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 draw | nsubj |
| 3 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 4 draw | cc |
| 4 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | 'd | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 draw | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 'd | compound:prt |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | infinitive | des | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ' out | participle | des not said here | 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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