Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 28

I ain't seed you in a coon's age.

Who acts: I · What happens: not be · To what, where: seed, age

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. 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 seed	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seed	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 seed	advmod
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seed	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 age	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coon	det
8	coon	coon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 age	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 coon	case
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seed	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	seed			in a coon's age		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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