Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 7

Las' Chuseday, Mars John he fotch home two er deze yer Flurridy watermillions, an him an' Miss Sally sot down fer ter eat um.

Who acts: John · What happens: fetch, sit down, eat · To what, where: Las Chuseday, um

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 (John), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:2250): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Las	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Chuseday	amod
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Las	punct
3	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fotch	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Chuseday	punct
5	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 John	compound
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fotch	dislocated
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fotch	nsubj
8	fotch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 fotch	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fotch	obj
11	er	of	ADP	_	15 watermillions	case
12	deze	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 watermillions	det
13	yer	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 deze	advmod
14	Flurridy	Flurridy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 watermillions	compound
15	watermillions	watermillion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 two	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sot	punct
17	an	and	CCONJ	_	23 sot	cc
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sot	nsubj
19	an	and	CCONJ	_	22 Sally	cc
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 an	punct
21	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sally	compound
22	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 him	conj
23	sot	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fotch	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 sot	compound:prt
25	fer	for	SCONJ	_	27 eat	mark
26	ter	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sot	advcl
28	um	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fotch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	John	Las Chuseday	Mars John dislocated; home property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme
2	sit down	past	John			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	to-infinitive	John not said here	um = they		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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