Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 72

Dey had plenty er cloze en plenty er grub, en dey wuz de fattes' niggers in de settlement.

Who acts: Dey, en plenty · What happens: have, wuz · To what, where: plenty

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 (Dey, en plenty), 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	er	er	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wuz	amod
5	cloze	cloze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	compound
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plenty	compound
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wuz	nsubj
8	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 grub	amod
9	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wuz	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 en	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wuz	compound
12	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wuz	compound
13	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plenty	appos
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 wuz	flat:foreign
15	fattes	fatte	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 niggers	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 fattes	case
17	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wuz	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 settlement	case
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 settlement	amod
20	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 niggers	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dey	plenty					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	wuz		en plenty						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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