Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 31

I sot dar mighty ca'm, but I 'spected dat sump'n' wuz gwine ter happ'n."

Who acts: I · What happens: spect · To what, where: dat sump'n

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 sot	nsubj
2	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sot	amod
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dar	conj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 'm	aux
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mighty	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spected	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 spected	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 spected	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 spected	punct
11	spected	spect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sot	conj
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sump'n	compound
13	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spected	obj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 happ'n	punct
15	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gwine	compound
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ter	compound
17	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happ'n	compound
18	happ'n	happ'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sump'n	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sot	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 sot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spect	past	I	dat sump'n and ter happ'n					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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