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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 95

Dis kinder ho'p me up, kaze I done seed Ole Miss look dat away once befo' w'en de overseer struck me in de face wid a w'ip.

Who acts: I, kaze, de overseer · What happens: do, look away, strike, wi · To what, where: seed, Dis kinder ho'p, me, w'ip, de face

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, kaze, de overseer), 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

compoundamodoblobjcompoundpunctnsubjnsubjacl:relclobjapposflatadvmodadvmodadvmodcasepunctoblcompoundnsubjparataxisobjcaseamodoblconjdetobjpunctrootDisNOUNkinderADJho'pNOUNmePRONupADP,PUNCTkazeNOUNIPRONdoneVERBseedNOUNOlePROPNMissPROPNlookVERBdatADVawayADVonceADVbefoADP'PUNCTw'enNOUNdeXoverseerNOUNstruckVERBmePRONinADPdeADJfaceNOUNwidVERBaDETw'ipNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DisdisNOUNNumber=Sing3 ho'pcompound
2kinderkindADJDegree=Cmp3 ho'pamod
3ho'pho'pNOUNNumber=Sing13 lookobl
4meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 ho'pobj
5upupADP_3 ho'pcompound
6,,PUNCT_7 kazepunct
7kazekazeNOUNNumber=Sing13 looknsubj
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 donensubj
9donedoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 kazeacl:relcl
10seedseedNOUNNumber=Sing9 doneobj
11OleOlePROPNNumber=Sing10 seedappos
12MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing11 Oleflat
13looklookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
14datdatADV_13 lookadvmod
15awayawayADV_13 lookadvmod
16onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult13 lookadvmod
17befobefoADP_19 w'encase
18''PUNCT_19 w'enpunct
19w'enw'enNOUNNumber=Sing22 struckobl
20dedeXForeign=Yes21 overseercompound
21overseeroverseerNOUNNumber=Sing22 strucknsubj
22struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 lookparataxis
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 struckobj
24ininADP_26 facecase
25dedeADJDegree=Pos26 faceamod
26facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing27 widobl
27widwiVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 struckconj
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 w'ipdet
29w'ipw'ipNOUNNumber=Sing27 widobj
30..PUNCT_13 lookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopastIseedvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Eventuality
2look awaypresentkazeDis kinder ho'paway, dat, once propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3strikepastde overseermebefo w'envn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
4wipastde overseer not said herea w'ipde facetree 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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