Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 28

He tore down de well shelter and fo' pannils er fence, an' de groun' look like wunner deze yer harrycanes had lit dar and fanned up de yeath."

Who acts: riz, pannils, wunner deze · What happens: tore down, shelter, fo, look, lit, fan up · To what, where: harrycanes, de yeath

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: who acts (riz, pannils, wunner deze), 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 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 tore	compound:prt
4	de	de	ADV	_	6 shelter	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 shelter	advmod
6	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tore	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fo	cc
8	fo	fo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shelter	conj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 pannils	punct
10	pannils	pannil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	nsubj
11	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fence	amod
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pannils	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 groun	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 groun	det
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 groun	punct
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 groun	compound
17	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pannils	appos
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 groun	punct
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fo	ccomp
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 deze	case
21	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 deze	compound
22	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obl
23	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 harrycanes	nmod:poss
24	harrycanes	harrycane	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lit	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lit	aux
26	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 deze	acl:relcl
27	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lit	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fanned	cc
29	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 fanned	compound:prt
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 yeath	compound
32	yeath	yeath	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fanned	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tore down	past	riz			tree rules
2	shelter	infinitive	riz not said here		well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fo	infinitive	riz not said here			tree rules
4	look	infinitive	pannils and er fence		like wunner deze	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	lit	past · perfect · passive	wunner deze not said here	yer's harrycanes		tree rules
6	fan up	past	riz not said here	de yeath		tree 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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