Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 21
You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw.
Who acts: You, de kine w'at · What happens: not have, de, kotch · To what, where: de kine w'at, me, de underjaw
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 (You, de kine w'at), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | de | de | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 w'at | amod |
| 6 | kine | kine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'at | compound |
| 7 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | kotch | kotch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 kotch | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 underjaw | case |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 underjaw | amod |
| 12 | underjaw | underjaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kotch | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · passive | You | de kine w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | de | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | kotch | infinitive | de kine w'at not said here | me | de underjaw | 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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