Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 36

"I did year tell un 'er name," replied the old man, with a great affectation of interest, "but look like I done gone en fergit it out'n my mine.

Who acts: old man · What happens: tell, reply, look, do · To what, where: un, gone en fergit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl:unmarked
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
6	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
8	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	compound
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 affectation	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 affectation	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 affectation	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 affectation	amod
20	affectation	affectation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 interest	case
22	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 affectation	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 affectation	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 affectation	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
26	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 replied	conj
27	like	like	SCONJ	_	29 done	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
29	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 look	advcl
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fergit	amod
31	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fergit	compound
32	fergit	fergit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 done	obj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	obl
34	out'n	out'n	ADP	_	36 mine	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mine	nmod:poss
36	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 done	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support		un	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent un=Recipient name=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look in a quote	present	the old man not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	past	the old man = man	gone en fergit		out'n the old man = man; fergit obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fergit=Eventuality

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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