Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 20

He stick hese'f.

Who acts: recollection · What happens: stick · To what, where: hese'f

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recollection), 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	2 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	hese'f	hese'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	infinitive	recollection	hese'f					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hese'f=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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