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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 43

I know'd a nigger w'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me how he tuck'n kyo'd 'im; en he kyo'd 'im good, mon."

Who acts: I, Remus, kyo, en kyo · What happens: know, tole, im, kyo, ' · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Remus, kyo, en kyo), 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

nsubjcasedetcompoundoblnmod:possamodconjdetnmod:unmarkedpunctconjnsubjccccompobjadvmodnsubjccnsubjauxpunctconjpunctcompoundnsubjnsubjauxparataxisadvmodxcomppunctconjpunctrootIPRONknowVERB'dADPaDETniggerNOUNw'ichNOUNhisPRONbrerADJwuzNOUNaDETwitchNOUN,PUNCTkazeNOUNhePRONup'nCCONJtoleVERBmePRONhowADVhePRONtuck'nCCONJkyoX'dAUX'PUNCTimNOUN;PUNCTenNOUNhePRONkyoNOUN'dAUX'VERBimADVgoodADJ,PUNCTmon.PROPN"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 knownsubj
2knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3'd'dADP_6 w'ichcase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 w'ichdet
5niggerniggerNOUNNumber=Sing6 w'ichcompound
6w'ichw'ichNOUNNumber=Sing2 knowobl
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 wuznmod:poss
8brerbrADJDegree=Cmp9 wuzamod
9wuzwuzNOUNNumber=Sing6 w'ichconj
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 witchdet
11witchwitchNOUNNumber=Sing9 wuznmod:unmarked
12,,PUNCT_13 kazepunct
13kazekazeNOUNNumber=Sing6 w'ichconj
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 tolensubj
15up'nup'nCCONJ_16 tolecc
16toletoleVERBVerbForm=Inf2 knowccomp
17meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 toleobj
18howhowADVPronType=Int16 toleadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 hownsubj
20tuck'ntuck'nCCONJ_24 imcc
21kyokyoXForeign=Yes24 imnsubj
22'dwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 imaux
23''PUNCT_24 impunct
24imimNOUNNumber=Plur19 heconj
25;;PUNCT_30 'punct
26enenNOUNNumber=Sing28 kyocompound
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 kyonsubj
28kyokyoNOUNNumber=Sing30 'nsubj
29'dwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin30 'aux
30''VERBVerbForm=Inf2 knowparataxis
31imimADV_32 goodadvmod
32goodgoodADJDegree=Pos30 'xcomp
33,,PUNCT_34 mon.punct
34mon.MondayPROPNAbbr=Yes Number=Sing30 'conj
35""PUNCT_2 knowpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpresentI'd a nigger w'ich and Remus's brer wuz a witch and kazevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2toleinfinitiveRemusmetree rules
3imwouldkyotree rules
4kyoRemustree rules
5'woulden kyogood propertytree 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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