Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit, sentence 55

I'm a mighty puny man, en I might git trompled,' sezee. '

Who acts: I · What happens: be, git, trompl · To what, where: mighty puny man, en

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	6 man	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 git	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 git	aux
11	git	git	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 en	acl:relcl
12	trompled	trompl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 git	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sezee	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 sezee	punct
15	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a mighty puny man and en and sezee	tree rules
2	git	might	I	en not said here	tree rules
3	trompl	participle	I not said here		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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