Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 13

I went dar fer ter sing, an' fer ter pray, an' fer ter wushup, an' I mos' giner'lly allers had a stray shin-plarster w'ich de ole 'oman say she want sont out dar ter dem cullud fokes 'cross de water.

Who acts: I, ole oman, oman · What happens: go, sing, pray, wushup, have, say · To what, where: stray shin plarster, cullud fokes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ole oman, oman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1943): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dar	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 went	advmod
4	fer	for	SCONJ	_	6 sing	mark
5	ter	to	PART	_	6 sing	mark
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pray	punct
8	an	and	CCONJ	_	12 pray	cc
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 an	punct
10	fer	for	SCONJ	_	12 pray	mark
11	ter	to	PART	_	12 pray	mark
12	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sing	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wushup	punct
14	an	and	CCONJ	_	18 wushup	cc
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 an	punct
16	fer	for	SCONJ	_	18 wushup	mark
17	ter	to	PART	_	18 wushup	mark
18	wushup	wushup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
20	an	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 an	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
23	mos	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 giner'lly	advmod
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 mos	punct
25	giner'lly	giner'lly	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
26	allers	always	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 plarster	det
29	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plarster	amod
30	shin	shin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plarster	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 plarster	punct
32	plarster	plarster	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
33	w'ich	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 want	obj
34	de	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 oman	det
35	ole	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 oman	amod
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 oman	punct
37	oman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 say	nsubj
38	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 plarster	acl:relcl
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 want	nsubj
40	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 say	ccomp
41	sont	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 want	xcomp
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 sont	compound:prt
43	dar	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 sont	advmod
44	ter	to	ADP	_	47 fokes	case
45	dem	them	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 fokes	det
46	cullud	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fokes	amod
47	fokes	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sont	obl
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 cross	punct
49	cross	across	ADP	_	51 water	case
50	de	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 water	det
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fokes	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	I		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pray	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	wushup	to-infinitive	I not said here				tree rules
5	have	past	I	a stray shin plarster		always, giner'lly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plarster=Patient
6	say speech: assert	present	the ole oman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	want	present	oman = woman				tree rules
8	send out not said to happen	participle	oman = woman not said here		them cullud fokes across the water; there		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to folk=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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