Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 29

She des hilt on, en de Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way.

Who acts: Baby, de · What happens: lose, use · To what, where: feet, de same way

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baby, de), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lose	nsubj
2	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hilt	det
3	hilt	hilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 hilt	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 en	punct
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hilt	conj
7	de	de	ADP	_	8 Brer	case
8	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 en	nmod
9	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Brer	flat
10	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 use	nsubj
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lose	ccomp
13	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 use	advmod
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Baby						tree rules
2	use	present	de	Brer's feet		de same way			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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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