Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 11

Den Miss Sally, she cut me off er slishe--wunner deze yer ongodly slishes, big ez yo' hat, an' I sot down on de steps an' wrop myse'f roun' de whole blessid chunk, 'cep'in' de rime."

Who acts: Den, wunner deze, I, er, de · What happens: cut off, slish, sot down, step, chunk · To what, where: me, de, myse'f roun

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Den, wunner deze, I, er), 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	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
3	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Den	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Den	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cut	iobj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
9	er	er	X	_	31 steps	nsubj
10	slishe	slishe	X	_	9 er	goeswith
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 deze	punct
12	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deze	compound
13	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slishes	nsubj
14	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 deze	amod
15	ongodly	ongodly	ADV	_	16 slishes	advmod
16	slishes	slish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 er	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yo	punct
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yo	amod
19	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 yo	amod
20	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hat	compound
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 yo	punct
22	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sot	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sot	det
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 sot	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sot	nsubj
27	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 er	conj
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 sot	advmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 de	case
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 sot	nmod
31	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	parataxis
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 roun	det
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 roun	punct
34	wrop	wrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 myse'f	compound
35	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 roun	compound
36	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steps	obj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 roun	punct
38	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	41 chunk	nsubj
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chunk	amod
40	blessid	blessid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chunk	amod
41	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steps	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 cep'in	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 cep'in	punct
44	cep'in	cep'in	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rime	compound
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 cep'in	punct
46	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	47 rime	compound
47	rime	rime	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 chunk	appos
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 rime	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 rime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	Den		me			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector i=Eventuality
2	slish	present	wunner deze				ongodly property	tree rules
3	sot down		I			de	down property	tree rules
4	step	present	er and a sot	a myse'f roun				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location roun=Theme
5	chunk		de					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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