Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 58

Many's en many's de time," continued the old man, reflectively, "dat I hatter take'n bresh dat boy on a counter his 'buzin' en beatin' dem yuther boys.

Who acts: I, buzin · What happens: continue, hatter, bresh, boy · To what, where: old man, dat, dat boy, counter · Speech: someone speaks here

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, buzin), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 en	amod
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Many	case
3	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod:poss
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 en	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 many	case
6	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continued	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
10	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continued	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reflectively	punct
15	reflectively	reflectively	ADV	_	10 continued	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dat	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 dat	punct
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hatter	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hatter	nsubj
20	hatter	hatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 continued	parataxis
21	take'n	take'n	CCONJ	_	22 bresh	cc
22	bresh	bresh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 hatter	conj
23	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bresh	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 counter	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 counter	det
27	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bresh	obl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 boys	nmod:poss
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 buzin	punct
30	buzin	buzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 boys	nsubj
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 buzin	punct
32	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 beatin	compound
33	beatin	beatin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 boys	nsubj
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 boys	punct
35	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 yuther	compound
36	yuther	yuther	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 boys	compound
37	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bresh	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past		the old man		time	reflectively property	tree rules
2	hatter	present	I	dat				tree rules
3	bresh	infinitive	I not said here	dat boy	a counter			tree rules
4	boy		buzin					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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