Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 12

Sometimes w'en I git kotch wid emptiness in de pit er de stummuck, an' git ter fairly honin' arter sumpin' w'at got substance in it, den hit look like unto me dat I kin stan' flat-footed an' make more cle'r money eatin' pies dan I could if I wuz ter sell de las' one 'twixt dis an' Chris'mus.

Who acts: w'at, w'en kotch wid emptiness, I, ter · What happens: w'en, get, hit, look, kin, foot · To what, where: I, substance, stan, an, more cle'r money, las

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'at, w'en kotch wid emptiness, I, 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 w'en	advmod
2	w'en	w'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 emptiness	amod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 w'en	obj
4	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kotch	compound
5	kotch	kotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 emptiness	compound
6	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 emptiness	amod
7	emptiness	emptiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hit	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 er	case
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 er	amod
10	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	compound
11	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 emptiness	nmod
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 stummuck	compound
13	stummuck	stummuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ter	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 ter	det
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 ter	punct
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ter	compound
18	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 er	conj
19	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	20 honin	advmod
20	honin	honin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ter	conj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 sumpin	punct
22	arter	arter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sumpin	compound
23	sumpin	sumpin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 honin	appos
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
25	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sumpin	acl:relcl
27	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 den	punct
31	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 emptiness	conj
32	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 hit	xcomp
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 me	case
35	unto	unto	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 look	obl
37	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	39 kin	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 kin	nsubj
39	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 look	advcl
40	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 kin	obj
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 footed	punct
42	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 footed	advcl
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 flat	punct
44	footed	foot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 kin	conj
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 footed	obj
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 make	punct
47	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	45 an	parataxis
48	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 money	amod
49	cle'r	cle'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 money	compound
50	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
51	eatin	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 money	acl
52	'	's	PART	_	51 eatin	case
53	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 dan	compound
54	dan	dan	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 eatin	obl:agent
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 could	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 dan	acl:relcl
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 wuz	mark
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 wuz	nsubj
59	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 make	advcl
60	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sell	nsubj
61	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 wuz	conj
62	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	63 las	nmod
63	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 sell	obj
64	'	's	PART	_	63 las	case
65	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 las	appos
66	'	'	PUNCT	_	68 dis	punct
67	twixt	twixt	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 dis	compound
68	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 one	appos
69	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 Chris'mus	det
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	71 Chris'mus	punct
71	Chris'mus	Chris'mus	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 dis	appos
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	w'en	participle		I		sometimes property	tree rules
2	get	past	w'at	substance	substance		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer substance=Stimulus
3	hit	past	w'en kotch wid emptiness in de pit er and de stummuck and a git ter and honin and den				tree rules
4	look	infinitive	w'en kotch wid emptiness in de pit er and de stummuck and a git ter and honin and den not said here			like me	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	kin	present	I	stan			tree rules
6	foot	past	I not said here	an			tree rules
7	make	infinitive		more cle'r money			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product
8	eat	participle		more cle'r money not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	wuz a condition, not said to happen	present	I				tree rules
10	sell	present	ter	las de			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent la=Theme

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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