Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 44

I done bin tampered wid twel plum' down ter de sap sucker'll set on a log en sassy me.

Who acts: I, bin, sap sucker · What happens: done, tamper, set · To what, where: bin, wid twel plum, me, en sassy

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bin, sap sucker), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 done	nsubj
2	done	done	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 done	obj
4	tampered	tamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bin	acl
5	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plum	amod
6	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plum	compound
7	plum	plum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tampered	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 plum	punct
9	down	down	ADV	_	10 ter	advmod
10	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 done	obl
11	de	de	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sucker	nmod:poss
12	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sucker	compound
13	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 done	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 sassy	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sassy	det
18	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 en	compound
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sassy	compound
20	sassy	sassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	done	present	I	bin		ter obl	tree rules
2	tamper	participle	bin not said here	wid twel plum			tree rules
3	set	future	de's sap sucker	me	a en sassy		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on sassy=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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