Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 37

"I loant 'im two dollars," responded Uncle Remus, grimly, "an' I'm a waitin' on 'im fer de money.

Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: loant, respond, be · To what, where: im two dollars, waitin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uncle Remus), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 loant	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 loant	nsubj
3	loant	loant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 responded	advcl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 dollars	punct
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dollars	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dollars	nummod
7	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loant	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loant	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 loant	punct
10	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Remus	compound
12	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 responded	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grimly	punct
14	grimly	grimly	ADV	_	10 responded	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 waitin	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 waitin	punct
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 waitin	det
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 waitin	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 waitin	nsubj
20	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 waitin	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 waitin	det
22	waitin	waitin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 responded	parataxis
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 fer	punct
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 fer	case
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 fer	punct
26	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fer	amod
27	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 waitin	appos
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 fer	flat
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fer	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	loant in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus	im two dollars		tree rules
2	respond speech: other	past	Uncle Remus		grimly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus	a waitin		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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