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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 35

You look sorter stuck up dis mawnin',' sezee, en den he rolled on de groun', en laft en laft twel he couldn't laff no mo'. '

Who acts: You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel · What happens: look, stick up, mawnin, roll, not laff · To what, where: stuck dis mawnin, groun en

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 (You, sorter, sezee, laft laft twel), 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

nsubjnsubjamodcompound:prtcompoundccompdeppunctnsubjpunctcompoundconjnsubjacl:relclcasecompoundcompounddepoblamodcompoundcompoundnsubjnsubjauxadvmodnmoddetappospunctpunctpunctrootYouPRONlookVERBsorterNOUNstuckVERBupADPdisNOUNmawninNOUN',PART'PUNCTsezeeNOUN,PUNCTenNOUNdenNOUNhePRONrolledVERBonADPdeXgrounNOUN',PARTenNOUNlaftADJenNOUNlaftNOUNtwelNOUNhePRONcouldAUXn'tPARTlaffNOUNnoDETmoNOUN'PUNCT.PUNCT'PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 looknsubj
2looklookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3sortersorterNOUNNumber=Sing7 mawninnsubj
4stuckstickVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 mawninamod
5upupADP_4 stuckcompound:prt
6disdisNOUNNumber=Sing7 mawnincompound
7mawninmawninNOUNNumber=Sing2 lookccomp
8',',PART_7 mawnindep
9''PUNCT_10 sezeepunct
10sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing15 rollednsubj
11,,PUNCT_13 denpunct
12enenNOUNNumber=Sing13 dencompound
13dendenNOUNNumber=Sing10 sezeeconj
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 rollednsubj
15rolledrollVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 mawninacl:relcl
16ononADP_20 encase
17dedeXForeign=Yes18 grouncompound
18groungrounNOUNNumber=Sing20 encompound
19',',PART_18 groundep
20enenNOUNNumber=Sing15 rolledobl
21laftlaftADJDegree=Pos24 twelamod
22enenNOUNNumber=Sing23 laftcompound
23laftlaftNOUNNumber=Sing24 twelcompound
24tweltwelNOUNNumber=Sing28 laffnsubj
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 laffnsubj
26couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 laffaux
27n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 laffadvmod
28lafflaffNOUNNumber=Sing20 ennmod
29nonoDETPronType=Neg30 modet
30momoNOUNNumber=Sing28 laffappos
31''PUNCT_30 mopunct
32..PUNCT_2 lookpunct
33''PUNCT_2 lookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpresentYouvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2stick upparticiplevn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3mawninsortertree rules
4rollpastsezee and en denstuck dis mawnin not said heregroun envn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mawnin=Theme on en=Trajectory
5not laffcouldlaft laft tweltree 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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