Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits, sentence 7

"Dey wuz good chilluns," continued the old man, heartily, "en ef dey hadn't er bin, der wuz one time w'en dey wouldn't er bin no little rabbits--na'er one.

Who acts: wuz good chilluns, en ef dey, dey · What happens: continue, have, not er · To what, where: old man, er bin, bin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXII. a Story About the Little Rabbits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wuz good chilluns, en ef dey, dey), 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	_	5 chilluns	punct
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wuz	compound
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chilluns	compound
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chilluns	amod
5	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 continued	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chilluns	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 chilluns	punct
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heartily	punct
13	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 dey	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dey	compound
17	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dey	compound
18	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	parataxis
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 er	advmod
21	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bin	amod
22	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wuz	punct
24	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 wuz	amod
25	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bin	appos
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 time	nummod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	obl:unmarked
28	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 time	flat
29	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 er	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 er	advmod
32	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	conj
33	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	obj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 rabbits	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rabbits	amod
36	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 er	obj
37	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 one	punct
38	na'er	na'er	ADP	_	39 one	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 er	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	continue	past	wuz good chilluns	the old man		tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	en ef dey	er bin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient
3	not er in a quote	would	dey	bin	time	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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