Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy, sentence 34

I done got so now dat I can't eat no chicken 'ceppin she's seasoned up wid calamus root.'

Who acts: I · What happens: get, not eat, season up · To what, where: chicken ceppin, Rabbit

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy. 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	3 got	nsubj
2	done	done	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
6	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	10 eat	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 eat	advmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 got	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 ceppin	det
12	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ceppin	compound
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 ceppin	punct
14	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seasoned	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 seasoned	aux:pass
17	seasoned	season	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 ceppin	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 seasoned	compound:prt
19	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 root	amod
20	calamus	calamus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 root	compound
21	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seasoned	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	present	I		now	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not eat	can	I	no chicken ceppin		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceppin=Patient
3	season up	present · passive		Rabbit		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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