Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 13

I ain't no han' at figgers, but I lay I k'n count up right yer in de san' en number up how menny days hit'll be 'fo' you 'er cuppled on ter de chain- gang."

Who acts: I, yer, menny days · What happens: lay, count up, number, hit, be, cuppl · To what, where: er, ter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, yer, menny days), 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 ai	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 han	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 han	det
5	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ai	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 han	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 figgers	case
8	figgers	figger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 han	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 lay	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ai	parataxis
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
14	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	_	15 count	cc
15	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 lay	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 count	compound:prt
17	right	right	ADV	_	18 yer	advmod
18	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 number	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 de	case
20	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 yer	obl
21	san	san	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 number	amod
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 number	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 number	compound
24	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 count	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	15 count	compound:prt
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 hit	advmod
27	menny	menny	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 days	compound
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hit	nsubj
29	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 count	advcl
30	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 you	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 you	cop
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 you	punct
33	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	35 you	case
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 you	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hit	obj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 hit	punct
37	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	38 cuppled	nsubj:pass
38	cuppled	cuppl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hit	parataxis
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 ter	case
40	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cuppled	obl
41	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	44 gang	compound
42	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gang	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 chain	punct
44	gang	gang	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ter	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	I				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	count up	infinitive	I not said here				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	number		yer				tree rules
4	hit	past	menny days				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	future				for you	tree rules
6	cuppl	participle · passive		er	ter and de chain gang		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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