Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 30

I ain't tromped roun' de country much.

Who acts: I · What happens: not tromp · To what, where: roun de country

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 (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	4 tromped	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tromped	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tromped	advmod
4	tromped	tromp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 country	compound
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 roun	punct
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 country	compound
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tromped	obj
9	much	much	ADV	_	4 tromped	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tromped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tromp	present · passive	I	roun de country					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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