Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 15

Ef wunner deze yer scurshun trains had runned over me I couldn't er bin wuss off.

Who acts: I · What happens: runn, not er off · To what, where: Ef wunner deze, bin wuss

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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 deze	compound
2	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deze	compound
3	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 runned	nsubj:pass
4	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 trains	amod
5	scurshun	scurshun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trains	compound
6	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 runned	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 runned	aux
8	runned	runn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 runned	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 er	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 er	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 er	advmod
14	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 runned	parataxis
15	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wuss	compound
16	wuss	wuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	14 er	compound:prt
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 runned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	runn	past · perfect · passive		Ef wunner deze				over me	tree rules
2	not er off	could	I	bin wuss					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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