Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 111

"But, bless yo' soul, dat man wouldn't never laft dat day ef he'd know'd de wukkins er Remus's mine.

Who acts: man, soul, bless soul · What happens: bless, not ef, know, de · To what, where: yo, day ef, wukkins

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 (man, soul, bless soul), 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 bless	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 bless	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bless	punct
4	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 soul	compound
5	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bless	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 bless	punct
7	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 de	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ef	punct
9	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ef	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ef	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 ef	advmod
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 laft	advmod
14	laft	laft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
15	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ef	compound
17	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soul	appos
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
19	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ef	acl:relcl
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 de	aux
22	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	wukkins	wukkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 de	obj
24	er	er	ADP	_	27 mine	case
25	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 mine	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Remus	case
27	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wukkins	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 de	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bless in a quote	infinitive		yo		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yo=Theme
2	not ef in a quote	would	that man			tree rules
3	know in a quote	would	soul	day ef not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus
4	de in a quote	would	bless soul	wukkins	er en	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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