Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 41
Ef she'd a grow'd wrong eend out'ard, I'd a bin a bad nigger long arter I jin'd de chu'ch.
Who acts: I · What happens: de · To what, where: chu'ch
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 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 'd | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 grow | det |
| 5 | grow | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 out'ard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 'd | 'd | PART | _ | 5 grow | case |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 out'ard | amod |
| 8 | eend | eend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 out'ard | compound |
| 9 | out'ard | out'ard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 'd | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 'd | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 'd | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 'd | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bin | det |
| 14 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 'd | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 arter | det |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nigger | amod |
| 17 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 arter | amod |
| 19 | arter | arter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 'd | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 de | nsubj |
| 21 | jin | jin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de | nsubj |
| 22 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 de | aux |
| 23 | de | de | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 arter | acl:relcl |
| 24 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 de | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | would | I | chu'ch | 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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