Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 14

He mont er bin name Slip-shot Sam, en he mouter bin name ole One-eye Riley, w'ich ef 'twuz hit ain't bin handed roun' ter me.

What happens: name, not hand · To what, where: man, hit, me

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1334): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 name	nsubj:pass
2	mont	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 name	aux
3	er	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 name	aux
4	bin	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 name	aux:pass
5	name	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Slip	Slip	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shot	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Slip	punct
8	shot	shot	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sam	compound
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 name	punct
11	en	and	CCONJ	_	15 name	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 name	nsubj:pass
13	mouter	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 name	aux
14	bin	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 name	aux:pass
15	name	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 name	conj
16	ole	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Riley	amod
17	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 eye	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 One	punct
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Riley	compound
20	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 name	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 handed	punct
22	w'ich	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 handed	dep
23	ef	if	SCONJ	_	25 twuz	mark
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 twuz	punct
25	twuz	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 handed	advcl
26	hit	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 handed	nsubj:pass
27	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 handed	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 handed	advmod
29	bin	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 handed	aux:pass
30	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Riley	acl:relcl
31	roun	round	ADV	_	30 handed	advmod
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 roun	punct
33	ter	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 handed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 name	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	name	might · perfect · passive	man			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	name	might · passive	man			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not hand	present · passive	hit = it	me	round property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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