Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 7

I thank my stars, I bless my life, I'm a huntin' for de muscadine.

Who acts: I · What happens: thank, bless, be · To what, where: stars, life, huntin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. 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	2 thank	nsubj
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stars	nmod:poss
4	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thank	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bless	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 bless	nsubj
7	bless	bless	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thank	conj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bless	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 huntin	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 huntin	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 huntin	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 huntin	det
14	huntin	huntin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bless	obl
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 huntin	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 muscadine	case
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 muscadine	amod
18	muscadine	muscadine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 huntin	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I	my stars		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
2	bless	present	I	my life		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	is a	present	I	a huntin	for de muscadine	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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