Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 5

"Dat I ain't," responded the other; "I ain't hear talk er Jem sence he cut loose fum de chain-gang.

Who acts: Dat · What happens: respond, talk, fum · To what, where: other, Jem sence, chain gang · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dat	punct
2	Dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 responded	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ai	nsubj
4	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dat	acl:relcl
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ai	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dat	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Dat	punct
8	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 responded	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ai	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 ai	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ai	nsubj
14	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 responded	parataxis
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hear	advmod
16	hear	hear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ai	xcomp
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hear	xcomp
18	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 sence	advmod
19	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 sence	compound
20	sence	sence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fum	nsubj
22	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fum	aux
23	loose	loose	ADV	_	24 fum	advmod
24	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sence	acl:relcl
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 fum	flat
26	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gang	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 chain	punct
28	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fum	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past	Dat	the other		tree rules
2	talk in a quote	infinitive	Dat not said here	Jem sence		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fum in a quote	past	Dat	chain gang	loose property	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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