Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 41

"En down ter dis day"--continued Uncle Remus, watching the smoke from his pipe curl upward over the little boy's head--"down ter dis day, Brer Possum's bound ter s'render w'en you tech him in de short ribs, en he'll laugh ef he knows he's gwineter be smashed fer it."

Who acts: En, ter dis day, bound s'render w'en · What happens: day, continue, watch, curl, tech, laugh · To what, where: Uncle Remus, smoke, pipe, head, en, short ribs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, ter dis day, bound s'render w'en), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
2	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nsubj
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 En	compound:prt
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
5	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	compound
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curl	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 day	acl
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Remus	compound
11	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watching	punct
13	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 continued	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smoke	det
15	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watching	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 pipe	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 pipe	nmod:poss
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smoke	nmod
19	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	upward	upward	ADV	_	19 curl	advmod
21	over	over	ADP	_	26 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 head	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 boy	case
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curl	obl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 down	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 down	punct
29	down	down	ADV	_	19 curl	advmod
30	ter	ter	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 day	nmod:poss
31	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 day	compound
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 down	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tech	punct
34	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Possum	compound
35	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 w'en	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Possum	case
37	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 w'en	amod
38	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 s'render	compound
39	s'render	s'render	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 w'en	compound
40	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tech	nsubj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 tech	nsubj
42	tech	tech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 curl	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tech	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 ribs	case
45	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	47 ribs	nsubj
46	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 ribs	amod
47	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 tech	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 en	punct
49	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ribs	conj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 laugh	nsubj
51	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 laugh	aux
52	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 en	acl:relcl
53	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 laugh	obj
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 knows	nsubj
55	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 ef	acl:relcl
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 smashed	nsubj
57	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 smashed	aux
58	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 smashed	nsubj:pass
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 smashed	aux:pass
60	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 knows	ccomp
61	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 smashed	obj
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 smashed	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 curl	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 curl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	day in a quote		En				tree rules
2	continue	participle	ter dis day not said here	Uncle Remus			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent remus=Theme
3	watch	gerund	ter dis day not said here	the smoke	en's pipe		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme
4	curl	present	ter dis day		the little boy's head	down, upward property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination
5	tech in a quote	present	Brer Possum's bound s'render w'en	en	short ribs and en		tree rules
6	laugh in a quote	future	en	ef			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Theme
7	know in a quote	present	en	ef not said here			tree rules
8	smash in a quote	present · passive		en			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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