Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. the Phonograph, sentence 3

I ain't seed um, but I year talk un um.

Who acts: I · What happens: talk · To what, where: un um

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. the Phonograph. 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 ai	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 um	advmod
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 um	compound
5	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ai	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 talk	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl:unmarked
10	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ai	conj
11	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 um	compound
12	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	I	un um			year		vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent um=Patient

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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