Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 31

I ain't bin to Charlstun an' needer is I tuck in Savanny; but you couldn't rig up no game on me dat I wouldn't tumble on to it de minit I laid my eyeballs on you.

Who acts: I, you, minit · What happens: not bin, be, not rig up, not tumble on, lay · To what, where: Charlstun, needer, Savanny, game, eyeballs

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, you, minit), 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 bin	nsubj
2	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bin	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bin	advmod
4	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Charlstun	case
6	Charlstun	Charlstun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bin	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 needer	det
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 needer	punct
9	needer	needer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Charlstun	appos
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tuck	cop
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tuck	nsubj
12	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 needer	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Savanny	case
14	Savanny	Savanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tuck	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rig	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 rig	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 rig	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 rig	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 rig	advmod
20	rig	rig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bin	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 rig	compound:prt
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 game	det
23	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rig	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 rig	obl
26	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rig	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 tumble	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tumble	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 tumble	advmod
30	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rig	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 tumble	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tumble	obl
34	de	de	PUNCT	_	30 tumble	punct
35	minit	minit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 laid	nsubj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 laid	nsubj
37	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tumble	parataxis
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 eyeballs	nmod:poss
39	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 laid	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 laid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not bin		I		Charlstun			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I	a needer not said here		Savanny	tuck property	tree rules
3	not rig up	could	you	no game			on me	tree rules
4	not tumble on	would	I			game		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
5	lay	past	minit	my eyeballs			on you	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eyeball=Theme on you=Destination

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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