Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 47

"Stand him up on the table," said the Sporting editor; "give him room."

Who acts: you, Sporting editor · What happens: stand up, say, sport, give · To what, where: man, table, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Sporting editor), 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	_	2 Stand	punct
2	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Stand	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 Stand	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stand	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Stand	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 editor	det
12	Sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 editor	amod
13	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
16	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Stand	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand up in a quote	imperative	you not said here	man		the table	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Sporting editor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sport	gerund					tree rules
4	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	room	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Theme

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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