Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 2

I notisses it in de alley-ways an on de street-cornders.

Who acts: I · What happens: notiss · To what, where: pitcher, de alley ways

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. 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 notisses	nsubj
2	notisses	notiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 notisses	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 ways	case
5	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ways	amod
6	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ways	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 alley	punct
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 notisses	obl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ways	appos
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 cornders	case
11	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cornders	amod
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cornders	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 street	punct
14	cornders	cornder	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 an	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 notisses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notiss	present	I	pitcher		de alley ways			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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