Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 24
He hed done grabbed fo' er my forwardes' pullets.
What happens: do, grab · To what, where: riz
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 done | nsubj |
| 2 | hed | h | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | xcomp |
| 5 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 11 pullets | case |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 pullets | punct |
| 7 | er | er | ADP | _ | 11 pullets | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 forwardes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | forwardes | forwarde | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pullets | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 forwardes | case |
| 11 | pullets | pullet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grabbed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | riz | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grab | participle | for my forwardes's pullets | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pullet=Beneficiary |
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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