Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 83

I know'd den dat trouble wuz brewin'.

Who acts: I, den dat · What happens: know, brewin · 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, den dat), 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 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 brewin	aux
4	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	compound
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brewin	nsubj
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brewin	compound
7	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brewin	compound
8	brewin	brewin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 brewin	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	brewin	would	den dat						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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