Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 16

Den I gits under de kiver an' tells my ole 'oman fer ter lay 'em onto me like she was roofin' a house.

Who acts: I, Den gits, oman fer ter, ter · What happens: den, tell, lie, be · To what, where: ole, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Den gits, oman fer ter, ter), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gits	compound
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Den	nsubj
3	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tells	nsubj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 kiver	case
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 kiver	compound
6	kiver	kiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gits	nmod
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tells	det
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct
9	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ole	nmod:poss
11	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tells	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct
13	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ter	compound
14	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ter	compound
15	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tells	ccomp
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	obj
18	onto	onto	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 lay	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 roofin	case
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 roofin	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 roofin	cop
23	roofin	roofin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obl
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 roofin	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	den		I			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	Den gits under de kiver	my ole		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ole=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lie	past	oman fer ter	'em = they	onto me	tree rules
4	is	past	ter		like roofin	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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