Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 20

I lak some rice-bud now."

Who acts: I · What happens: lak · To what, where: rice bud

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 lak	nsubj
2	lak	lak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bud	det
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bud	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rice	punct
6	bud	bud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lak	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lak	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lak	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lak	present	I	some rice bud			now		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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