Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 61

I kin see 'er des like it 'uz yistiddy.

Who acts: I · What happens: kin, see · To what, where: er des

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 kin	nsubj
2	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 kin	xcomp
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 des	punct
5	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 des	amod
6	des	de	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 yistiddy	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 yistiddy	nsubj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 yistiddy	punct
10	uz	uz	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yistiddy	compound
11	yistiddy	yistiddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 des	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kin	present	I						tree rules
2	see	infinitive	I not said here	er des				like uz yistiddy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer de=Stimulus

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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