Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 16
I bin trompin' 'roun' in de lowgroun's now gwine on seventy-fi' year, but I ain't see no sich times ez dat w'at I done spe'unst now.
Who acts: I · What happens: bin, not see, do · To what, where: trompin, ez dat w'at
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 | 2 bin | nsubj |
| 2 | bin | bin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | trompin | trompin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 bin | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 roun | punct |
| 6 | roun | roun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bin | obl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 roun | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gwine | case |
| 9 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lowgroun | compound |
| 10 | lowgroun | lowgroun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gwine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 lowgroun | case |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gwine | advmod |
| 13 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roun | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 fi | case |
| 15 | seventy | seventy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fi | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fi | punct |
| 17 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gwine | nmod |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 fi | punct |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fi | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bin | conj |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 times | det |
| 27 | sich | sich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 times | compound |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 see | obj |
| 29 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 w'at | amod |
| 30 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 w'at | compound |
| 31 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 times | nmod |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 done | nsubj |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 w'at | acl:relcl |
| 34 | spe'unst | spe'unst | ADV | _ | 35 now | advmod |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 done | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bin | present | I | trompin | roun in de lowgroun's gwine on seventy fi year obl | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trompin=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | I | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past | I | ez dat w'at not said here | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Eventuality |
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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