Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 116

"Seem like I ain't never see no raw day like dat, needer befo' ner sence.

Who acts: you, en · What happens: seem, not see

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 (you, en), 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	_	2 Seem	punct
2	Seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
5	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Seem	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 day	det
10	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl:unmarked
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 dat	case
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 befo	punct
15	needer	needer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 befo	compound
16	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	appos
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 sence	punct
18	ner	ner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sence	compound
19	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 befo	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	not see in a quote	present	en				day	like dat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/46/116/