Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 31

One hoe- cake an' a rasher er middlin' meat las's me fum Sunday ter Sunday, an' I'm in a mighty big streak er luck w'en I gits dat."

Who acts: rasher, I · What happens: middlin, be · To what, where: mighty big luck w'en

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 (rasher, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cake	nummod
2	hoe	hoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cake	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hoe	punct
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dat	nsubj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Sunday	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 middlin	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rasher	det
8	rasher	rasher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middlin	nsubj
9	er	er	PUNCT	_	10 middlin	punct
10	middlin	middlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Sunday	nsubj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 middlin	punct
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 middlin	conj
13	las	las	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 me	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 las	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 middlin	conj
16	fum	fum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Sunday	nsubj
17	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ter	compound
18	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Sunday	nmod:desc
19	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 dat	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 w'en	punct
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 w'en	det
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 w'en	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 w'en	nsubj
24	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 w'en	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	32 w'en	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 w'en	det
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 w'en	amod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 w'en	amod
29	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 er	compound
30	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 luck	compound
31	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 w'en	compound
32	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dat	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 dat	nsubj
34	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dat	compound
35	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 dat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	middlin		a rasher						tree rules
2	is	present	I			a mighty big luck w'en			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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