Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 132

He los' one arm in dat tree bizness, but me en Miss Sally we nuss 'im en we nuss 'im twel he done got well.

Who acts: dat, we · What happens: los, nuss, do, get · To what, where: one arm, im en, im twel

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 (dat, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 los	nsubj
2	los	los	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 arm	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 arm	nummod
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 los	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 bizness	case
7	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bizness	compound
9	bizness	bizness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arm	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 en	cc
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 en	compound
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 los	obl
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Sally	compound
15	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 en	appos
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 nuss	nsubj
17	nuss	nuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 en	acl:relcl
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 en	punct
19	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 en	amod
20	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nuss	obj
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 nuss	nsubj
22	nuss	nuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 en	acl:relcl
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 twel	punct
24	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 twel	amod
25	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nuss	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
27	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 twel	acl:relcl
28	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 done	xcomp
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 got	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 los	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	los	past	dat	one arm in tree bizness	me en obl	tree rules
2	nuss	present	we	im en		tree rules
3	nuss	present	we	im twel		tree rules
4	do	past	dat	im twel not said here		tree rules
5	get	participle	dat not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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.

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