Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 35

All night long dey racked an' dey galloped, an' w'en dey got tired er rackin' an' gallopin', dey all close in on de ole toof an' thumped it an' gouged at it twel it 'peared unto me dat dey had got de jaw-bone loosened up, an' wuz tryin' fer ter fetch it up thoo de top er my head an' out at der back er my neck.

Who acts: night long dey, w'en dey, ole toof, dey, dat dey, fer ter · What happens: rack, gallop, get, thump, gouge, pear · To what, where: dey, tired er rackin, gouged twel, de jaw bone

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 (night long dey, w'en dey, ole toof, dey), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dey	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dey	compound
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dey	amod
4	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 racked	nsubj
5	racked	rack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dey	det
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 dey	punct
8	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 racked	obj
9	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dey	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 an	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dey	conj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dey	compound
14	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 an	conj
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rackin	amod
17	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rackin	compound
18	rackin	rackin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 dey	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dey	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 gallopin	punct
22	gallopin	gallopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dey	compound
23	',	',	PUNCT	_	22 gallopin	punct
24	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rackin	appos
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 close	advmod
26	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dey	amod
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 toof	case
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 toof	case
29	de	de	ADP	_	31 toof	case
30	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 toof	amod
31	toof	toof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 close	obl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 thumped	det
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 thumped	punct
34	thumped	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 toof	acl:relcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thumped	obj
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 twel	det
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 gouged	punct
38	gouged	gouge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 twel	amod
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gouged	obl
41	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thumped	obj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 peared	nsubj
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 peared	punct
44	peared	pear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 twel	acl:relcl
45	unto	unto	ADP	_	46 me	case
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 peared	obl
47	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dey	compound
48	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 got	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 got	aux
50	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 peared	parataxis
51	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 bone	amod
52	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bone	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 jaw	punct
54	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 got	obj
55	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 bone	acl
56	up	up	ADP	_	55 loosened	compound:prt
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 tryin	punct
58	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 tryin	det
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	61 tryin	punct
60	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 tryin	compound
61	tryin	tryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 twel	appos
62	'	'	PUNCT	_	61 tryin	punct
63	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	64 ter	amod
64	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 fetch	nsubj
65	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 thumped	parataxis
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 fetch	obj
67	up	up	ADP	_	65 fetch	compound:prt
68	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 fetch	obj
69	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	68 thoo	flat:foreign
70	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 thoo	amod
71	er	er	ADP	_	73 head	case
72	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 head	nmod:poss
73	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 top	obl
74	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	78 der	det
75	'	'	PUNCT	_	78 der	punct
76	out	out	ADP	_	75 '	compound:prt
77	at	at	ADP	_	78 der	case
78	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 head	appos
79	back	back	ADV	_	80 er	advmod
80	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	82 neck	advmod
81	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	82 neck	nmod:poss
82	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 der	nmod
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 racked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rack	past	all night long dey	a dey			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Patient
2	gallop	participle		a dey not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	w'en dey	tired er rackin			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rackin=Stimulus
4	thump	past	ole toof not said here	dey			vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient twel=Result
5	gouge	participle			dey		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	pear	past	dey	a gouged twel not said here		unto me	tree rules
7	get	past · perfect	dat dey	de jaw bone			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus
8	loosen up	participle		de jaw bone not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	fetch up	present	fer ter	dey			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary thoo=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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