Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 40

"I'm drivin' on 'roun', honey.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: drivin · To what, where: roun

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy), 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	_	4 drivin	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 drivin	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drivin	aux
4	drivin	drivin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 drivin	punct
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 roun	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 roun	punct
8	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drivin	obl
9	',	',	PUNCT	_	8 roun	punct
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roun	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drivin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drivin in a quote	present · progressive	the little boy = boy			roun and honey			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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