Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 22

You mout a had a gum-bile, but you ain't bin boddered wid de toofache.

Who acts: You · What happens: mout, have, not bin, bodder · To what, where: gum bile, boddered wid

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), 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	2 mout	nsubj
2	mout	mout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 had	det
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mout	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bile	det
6	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bile	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gum	punct
8	bile	bile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bin	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 bin	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bin	nsubj
12	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bin	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bin	advmod
14	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mout	conj
15	boddered	bodder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wid	amod
16	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bin	obj
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 wid	flat:foreign
18	toofache	toofache	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wid	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mout	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mout	present	You		tree rules
2	have	past	You not said here	a gum bile	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bile=Patient
3	not bin		you	boddered wid and toofache	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wid=Theme
4	bodder	participle			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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