Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 24

So I kinder hump myse'f an' scramble out, and de fus man w'at I seed was a pleeceman, an' he had a nigger 'rested, an' de fergiven name er dat nigger wuz Remus."

Who acts: I, pleeceman · What happens: scramble out, be, rest · To what, where: de fus man w'at, pleeceman, an

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, pleeceman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 kinder	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 kinder	nsubj
3	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 myse'f	compound
5	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kinder	nsubj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kinder	obl
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 scramble	punct
8	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 an	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 scramble	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 w'at	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 w'at	cc
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 w'at	compound
13	fus	fus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 w'at	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	compound
15	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scramble	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 pleeceman	nsubj
17	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pleeceman	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pleeceman	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pleeceman	det
20	pleeceman	pleeceman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 w'at	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rested	punct
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rested	nsubj:pass
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rested	aux
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nigger	det
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 nigger	punct
29	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 pleeceman	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 name	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 name	det
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 name	punct
33	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fergiven	compound
34	fergiven	fergiven	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 name	compound
35	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pleeceman	conj
36	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 dat	advmod
37	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wuz	amod
38	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wuz	compound
39	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Remus	nmod:desc
40	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 name	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 pleeceman	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 w'at	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	scramble out	infinitive		de fus man w'at	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	I	a pleeceman and a fergiven name Remus dat nigger wuz	tree rules
3	rest	past · perfect · passive	a pleeceman and a fergiven name Remus dat nigger wuz not said here	an	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/48/24/