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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 100

I won't say I wuz skeer'd," said Uncle Remus, as though endeavoring to recall something he failed to remember, "I won't say I wuz skeer'd, kaze I wuzzent; but I wuz took'n wid a mighty funny feelin' in de naberhood er de gizzard.

Who acts: I, Uncle Remus, Remus, took'n · What happens: not say, wuz, say, endeavor, recall, fail · To what, where: skeer 'd, something, skeer, kaze, mighty funny feelin, de naberhood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Uncle Remus, Remus, took'n), 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

nsubjauxadvmodccompnsubjccompcompoundobjpunctpunctcompoundnsubjpunctadvmodmarkadvclmarkxcompobjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctpunctnsubjauxadvmodccompnsubjccompobjpunctpunctparataxisnsubjacl:relclpunctccnsubjconjnsubjccompdetamodamodobjpunctcasecompoundnmodcompoundflat:foreignappospunctrootIPRONwoAUXn'tPARTsayVERBIPRONwuzVERBskeerNOUN'dNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBUnclePROPNRemusPROPN,PUNCTasADVthoughSCONJendeavoringVERBtoPARTrecallVERBsomethingPRONhePRONfailedVERBtoPARTrememberVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONwoAUXn'tPARTsayVERBIPRONwuzVERBskeerNOUN'dPUNCT,PUNCTkazeNOUNIPRONwuzzentVERB;PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONwuzVERBtook'nNOUNwidVERBaDETmightyADJfunnyADJfeelinNOUN'PUNCTinADPdeXnaberhoodNOUNerXdeXgizzardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 saynsubj
2wowillAUXVerbForm=Fin4 sayaux
3n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 sayadvmod
4saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf11 saidccomp
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 wuznsubj
6wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 sayccomp
7skeerskeerNOUNNumber=Sing8 'dcompound
8'd'dNOUNNumber=Sing6 wuzobj
9,,PUNCT_4 saypunct
10""PUNCT_4 saypunct
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12UncleUnclePROPNNumber=Sing13 Remuscompound
13RemusRemusPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
14,,PUNCT_17 endeavoringpunct
15asasADV_17 endeavoringadvmod
16thoughthoughSCONJ_17 endeavoringmark
17endeavoringendeavorVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 saidadvcl
18totoPART_19 recallmark
19recallrecallVERBVerbForm=Inf17 endeavoringxcomp
20somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind19 recallobj
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 failednsubj
22failedfailVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 somethingacl:relcl
23totoPART_24 remembermark
24rememberrememberVERBVerbForm=Inf22 failedxcomp
25,,PUNCT_30 saypunct
26""PUNCT_30 saypunct
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs30 saynsubj
28wowillAUXVerbForm=Fin30 sayaux
29n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg30 sayadvmod
30saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf24 rememberccomp
31IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 wuznsubj
32wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 sayccomp
33skeerskeerNOUNNumber=Sing32 wuzobj
34'd'dPUNCT_32 wuzpunct
35,,PUNCT_36 kazepunct
36kazekazeNOUNNumber=Sing30 sayparataxis
37IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 wuzzentnsubj
38wuzzentwuzzentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 kazeacl:relcl
39;;PUNCT_42 wuzpunct
40butbutCCONJ_42 wuzcc
41IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs42 wuznsubj
42wuzwuzVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 saidconj
43took'ntook'nNOUNNumber=Sing44 widnsubj
44widwiVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 wuzccomp
45aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 feelindet
46mightymightyADJDegree=Pos48 feelinamod
47funnyfunnyADJDegree=Pos48 feelinamod
48feelinfeelinNOUNNumber=Sing44 widobj
49''PUNCT_48 feelinpunct
50ininADP_52 naberhoodcase
51dedeXForeign=Yes52 naberhoodcompound
52naberhoodnaberhoodNOUNNumber=Sing48 feelinnmod
53ererX_55 gizzardcompound
54dedeXForeign=Yes53 erflat:foreign
55gizzardgizzardNOUNNumber=Sing52 naberhoodappos
56..PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not say speech: assertfutureIvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2wuzpresentIskeer 'dtree rules
3say speech: assert in a quotepastUncle Remusvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4endeavor in a quotegerundUncle Remus not said heretree rules
5recall in a quoteto-infinitiveUncle Remus not said heresomethingvn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6fail in a quotepastRemusvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7not remember in a quoteto-infinitiveRemus not said herevn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8not say speech: assertfutureIvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9wuzpresentIskeertree rules
10wuzzentpresentIkaze not said heretree rules
11wuzpresentItree rules
12wipasttook'na mighty funny feelinde naberhoodtree 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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