Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 43
Blanket him somebody, and take him to the stable."
Who acts: you · What happens: blanket, take · To what, where: editor, stable
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 (you), 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 | Blanket | blanket | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blanket | obj |
| 3 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Blanket | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Blanket | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stable | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stable | det |
| 10 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blanket | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Blanket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blanket | imperative | you not said here | editor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | editor | the stable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stable=Destination |
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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