Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 11

"You knowed me in Charlstun, and den in Savanny?"

Who acts: You · What happens: knowe · To what, where: Daddy, Charlstun

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knowed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 knowed	nsubj
3	knowed	knowe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 knowed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Charlstun	case
6	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knowed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 den	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 den	cc
9	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knowed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Savanny	case
11	Savanny	Savanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 den	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knowed	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knowe in a quote	past	You	Daddy		Charlstun		den in Savanny obl	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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