Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 51
I ain't had no res' all night,' sez she. '
Who acts: I · What happens: not have, say · To what, where: res, Cow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 res | det |
| 6 | res | re | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 res | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 12 | sez | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sez | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 sez | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | I | no res | night | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent re=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I not said here | Cow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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