Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 29
I'd a know'd you in New 'Leens, let lone down dar in de kyar-shed."
What happens: let down · To what, where: lone
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: 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 'd | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 know | det |
| 4 | know | know | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 you | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 4 know | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 'd | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Leens | case |
| 8 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Leens | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 New | case |
| 10 | Leens | leen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 'd | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 'd | parataxis |
| 13 | lone | lone | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 let | compound:prt |
| 15 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 shed | case |
| 17 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shed | amod |
| 18 | kyar | kyar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 kyar | punct |
| 20 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dar | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | infinitive | lone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lone=Recipient dar=Theme |
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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