Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 14
I ain't bin thoo de mill sence day 'fo' yistiddy, den dey ain't no mills in de lan'.
Who acts: I · What happens: not bin · To what, where: thoo mill
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. 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 | 4 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bin | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bin | advmod |
| 4 | bin | bin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mill | compound |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 thoo | flat:foreign |
| 7 | mill | mill | X | _ | 4 bin | obj |
| 8 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | compound |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mill | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 11 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 yistiddy | mark |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 yistiddy | punct |
| 13 | yistiddy | yistiddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mill | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ai | punct |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dey | compound |
| 16 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ai | compound |
| 17 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bin | parataxis |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 mills | advmod |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 mills | det |
| 20 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ai | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lan | case |
| 22 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lan | amod |
| 23 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mills | nmod |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 lan | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bin | I | thoo mill | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=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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