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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 104

"'Well, boss,' sez I, 'I bin cuttin' some wood fer Ole Miss, en I des stop fer ter worn my han's a little,' sez I.

Who acts: en, han, boss · What happens: bin, stop, wear, be, say · To what, where: cuttin, fer ter, I. · 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 (en, han, boss), 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

punctpunctdiscoursepunctnsubjpunctpunctcasenmodpunctpunctnsubjconjobjpunctdetobjamodamodobl:unmarkedpunctconjnsubjdetacl:relclamodobjaclnmod:possnsubjcopdetconjpunctpunctobjroot"PUNCT'PUNCTWellINTJ,PUNCTbossNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezADPIPRON,PUNCT'PUNCTIPRONbinVERBcuttinNOUN'PUNCTsomeDETwoodNOUNferADJOleADJMissPROPN,PUNCTenNOUNIPRONdesDETstopVERBferADJterNOUNwornVERBmyPRONhanNOUN'sAUXaDETlittleADJ,PUNCT'PUNCTsezVERBI.X
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_5 bosspunct
2''PUNCT_5 bosspunct
3WellwellINTJ_5 bossdiscourse
4,,PUNCT_3 Wellpunct
5bossbossNOUNNumber=Sing36 seznsubj
6,,PUNCT_7 'punct
7''PUNCT_5 bosspunct
8sezsezADP_9 Icase
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 bossnmod
10,,PUNCT_13 binpunct
11''PUNCT_13 binpunct
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 binnsubj
13binbinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 bossconj
14cuttincuttinNOUNNumber=Sing13 binobj
15''PUNCT_14 cuttinpunct
16somesomeDETPronType=Ind17 wooddet
17woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing13 binobj
18ferfADJDegree=Cmp17 woodamod
19OleoleADJDegree=Pos20 Missamod
20MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing18 ferobl:unmarked
21,,PUNCT_22 enpunct
22enenNOUNNumber=Sing17 woodconj
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 stopnsubj
24desdesDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 stopdet
25stopstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 enacl:relcl
26ferfADJDegree=Cmp27 teramod
27terterNOUNNumber=Sing25 stopobj
28wornwearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 teracl
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 hannmod:poss
30hanhanNOUNNumber=Sing33 littlensubj
31'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 littlecop
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 littledet
33littlelittleADJDegree=Pos28 wornconj
34,,PUNCT_5 bosspunct
35''PUNCT_5 bosspunct
36sezsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
37I.I.XForeign=Yes36 sezobj

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bin in a quotepresentencuttintree rules
2stop in a quotepresentenfer tervn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ter=Eventuality
3wear in a quoteparticiplefer ter not said herevn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4is in a quotepresentmy hanlittle propertytree rules
5say speech: assert in a quotepresentboss sez II.vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=Topic

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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