Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 25

He sorter hankered 'roun' like, en den crope back whar he come fum.

Who acts: oman, den crope · What happens: hanker, come · To what, where: fum

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oman, den crope), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hankered	nsubj
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hankered	nsubj
3	hankered	hanker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 roun	punct
5	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 like	compound
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 roun	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	3 hankered	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crope	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 den	compound
10	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crope	compound
11	crope	crope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 crope	advmod
13	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hankered	ccomp
16	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hankered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hanker	past	oman						vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	come	infinitive	den crope	fum					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fum=Theme

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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