Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 137
En ef dem ain't nuff fer enny man den I done los' de way."
Who acts: I · What happens: done · To what, where: los
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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dem | compound |
| 2 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dem | compound |
| 3 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | compound |
| 4 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nuff | compound |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 nuff | advmod |
| 6 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 den | nsubj |
| 7 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 den | amod |
| 8 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 den | compound |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 den | compound |
| 10 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 12 | done | done | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 den | acl:relcl |
| 13 | los | los | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 los | punct |
| 15 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 den | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 den | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | done | present | I | los | de way obl:unmarked | 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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