Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 37

Mars John, he seed I wuz 'stracted, an' he tole me fer ter go roun' yere an' git sump'n' put on it, an' de drug man he 'lowed dat I better have 'er draw'd, an' his wuds wuzzent more'n col' 'fo' wunner deze yer watchyoumaycollums-- wunner deze dentis' mens--had retched fer it wid a pa'r er tongs w'at don't tu'n loose w'en dey ketches a holt.

Who acts: Mars, I, drug man, dey, pa'r · What happens: seed, wuz, stract, tole, go, put · To what, where: seed, me, roun, git sump'n, dat, wuzzent more'n col

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 (Mars, I, drug man, dey), 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	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seed	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seed	nsubj
5	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	appos
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wuz	nsubj
7	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seed	acl:relcl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 stracted	punct
9	stracted	stract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wuz	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tole	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tole	det
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 tole	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tole	nsubj
14	tole	tole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mars	appos
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tole	obj
16	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 ter	amod
17	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
21	yere	yere	ADV	_	25 sump'n	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sump'n	det
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 sump'n	punct
24	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sump'n	compound
25	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	parataxis
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 sump'n	punct
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sump'n	acl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 man	punct
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 man	punct
33	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drug	compound
34	drug	drug	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 man	compound
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 have	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lowed	nsubj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 lowed	punct
38	lowed	low	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 man	acl:relcl
39	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lowed	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 better	nsubj
41	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 dat	acl:relcl
42	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sump'n	parataxis
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	45 draw	punct
44	er	er	PART	_	45 draw	mark
45	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 have	xcomp
46	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	45 draw	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 wuds	punct
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 wuds	det
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 wuds	punct
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 wuds	nmod:poss
51	wuds	wud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 draw	advcl
52	wuzzent	wuzzent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 col	amod
53	more'n	more'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 col	compound
54	col	col	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wuds	obj
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 col	punct
56	'	'	PUNCT	_	54 col	punct
57	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	60 deze	case
58	'	'	PUNCT	_	60 deze	punct
59	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 deze	compound
60	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wuds	obl
61	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 watchyoumaycollums	nmod:poss
62	watchyoumaycollums	watchyoumaycollum	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 deze	conj
63	--	--	PUNCT	_	66 dentis	punct
64	wunner	wunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 deze	compound
65	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 dentis	compound
66	dentis	dentis	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 deze	conj
67	'	'	PUNCT	_	68 mens	punct
68	mens	men	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 dentis	conj
69	--	--	PUNCT	_	71 retched	punct
70	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 retched	aux
71	retched	retch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 wuds	conj
72	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 retched	obj
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 wid	nsubj
74	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 retched	conj
75	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	76 pa'r	det
76	pa'r	pa'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 tu'n	nsubj
77	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	78 tongs	amod
78	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	76 pa'r	conj
79	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 pa'r	conj
80	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	82 tu'n	aux
81	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	82 tu'n	advmod
82	tu'n	tu'n	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	74 wid	ccomp
83	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	86 ketches	amod
84	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	86 ketches	nummod
85	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 ketches	compound
86	ketches	ketch	NOUN	Number=Plur	82 tu'n	obj
87	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	88 holt	det
88	holt	holt	NOUN	Number=Sing	86 ketches	nmod:unmarked
89	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seed		Mars				tree rules
2	wuz	present	I	seed not said here			tree rules
3	stract	participle	I not said here				tree rules
4	tole		Mars	me			tree rules
5	go	present	Mars	roun			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roun=Theme
6	put	participle		a git sump'n not said here	roun		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
7	low	past	Mars	dat			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dat=Theme
8	have	present	a drug man				tree rules
9	draw	infinitive	a drug man not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	wud	present	a drug man not said here	wuzzent more'n col		for wunner deze and yer's watchyoumaycollums and deze dentis and mens	tree rules
11	retch	past · perfect	a drug man not said here	fer			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fer=Theme
12	wi	past	dey				tree rules
13	not tu'n	present · do-support	a pa'r and er tongs and w'at	loose w'en dey ketches a holt			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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