Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 34
"'I ain't got holt er no stump root, en I is got holt er you.'
Who acts: Brer · What happens: not get, get · To what, where: Brer
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 holt | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 4 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 got | advmod |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 holt | amod |
| 7 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 11 root | discourse |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 root | det |
| 10 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 root | compound |
| 11 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holt | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 en | punct |
| 13 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 root | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux:pass |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 en | acl:relcl |
| 17 | holt | holt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 18 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 19 you | discourse |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 got | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holt | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 holt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · passive | Brer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · passive | Brer | you obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary holt=Theme |
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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