Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 127

I know'd dat man wuz gwineter shoot Mars Jeems ef he could, en dat wuz mo'n I could stan'.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, stan · To what, where: dat wuz mo'n

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), 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 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shoot	aux
4	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoot	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	compound
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	compound
7	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	compound
8	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp
9	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	appos
10	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mars	flat
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 ef	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 en	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoot	conj
16	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mo'n	compound
17	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mo'n	compound
18	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 en	conj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 stan	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 stan	aux
21	stan	stan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 mo'n	acl
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 stan	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stan	could	I	dat wuz mo'n not said here					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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