Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 28

Present'y I feel 'im comin', an' dis time hit look like he kyar'd de news unto Mary, fer hit feel like der wuz anudder wun wid 'im.

Who acts: I, dis time, fer · What happens: feel, hit, look, de · To what, where: Present'y, dis time, news

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, dis time, fer), 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	Present'y	present'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 comin	punct
5	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comin	amod
6	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj
7	',	',	PUNCT	_	18 de	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
10	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	nsubj
12	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 time	acl:relcl
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 kyar	case
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kyar	nsubj
16	kyar	kyar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 de	aux
18	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 comin	conj
19	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 de	obj
20	unto	unto	ADP	_	21 Mary	case
21	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 de	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hit	punct
23	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	nsubj
24	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	conj
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hit	xcomp
26	like	like	ADP	_	33 im	case
27	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 im	amod
28	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wun	compound
29	anudder	anudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wun	compound
30	wun	wun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wid	compound
31	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 im	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 wid	case
33	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feel	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I	Present'y		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comin=Theme
2	hit	participle				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	present		a dis time not said here	like kyar	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
4	de	would	a dis time	news	unto Mary	tree rules
5	hit	past	fer			tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	fer not said here		like wun wid's der im	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like im=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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