Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 31
I wants elbow-room, an I'm bleedzd ter have it.
Who acts: I, bleedzd ter · What happens: want, be, have · To what, where: elbow room, bleedzd ter, room
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, bleedzd ter), 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 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 elbow | punct |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ter | det |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ter | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ter | cop |
| 10 | bleedzd | bleedzd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ter | amod |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | elbow room | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a bleedzd ter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a bleedzd ter | room | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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