Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 18

Dar she sets a bellyin' out an' lookin' mighty fat an' full, an' yit she'd set dar a bellyin' out ef dere wuzzent nuthin' but win' under dat stopper.

Who acts: Dar · What happens: set, win · To what, where: bellyin, lookin, dar, stopper

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dar), 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	Dar	Dar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sets	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sets	nsubj
3	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bellyin	det
5	bellyin	bellyin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sets	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 lookin	punct
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 lookin	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lookin	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 lookin	punct
10	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sets	obl
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 lookin	punct
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fat	amod
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lookin	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 full	det
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 full	punct
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fat	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yit	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 yit	det
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 yit	punct
20	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fat	conj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
22	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 set	aux
23	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 yit	acl:relcl
24	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bellyin	det
26	bellyin	bellyin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 nuthin	punct
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 dere	case
29	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dere	compound
30	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nuthin	compound
31	wuzzent	wuzzent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 nuthin	amod
32	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bellyin	appos
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 nuthin	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 win	cc
35	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 set	conj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 stopper	punct
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 stopper	case
38	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 stopper	det
39	stopper	stopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 win	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	set	present	Dar	a bellyin	a lookin and mighty fat and a yit	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bellyin=Theme out lookin=Destination
2	set	would	dar	dar		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent dar=Theme bellyin=Destination
3	win	present	dar not said here		that stopper	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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