Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 32

W'en hit come to dat I'm ole man Tumbler, fum Tumblersville--I is dat.

Who acts: W'en, I · What happens: hit, come, be, fum · To what, where: dat, Tumbler, Tumblersville

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 (W'en, 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	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hit	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 dat	case
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Tumbler	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Tumbler	cop
8	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Tumbler	nmod:desc
10	Tumbler	Tumbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fum	punct
12	fum	fum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	parataxis
13	Tumblersville	Tumblersville	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fum	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 dat	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 dat	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dat	cop
17	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hit	past	W'en				tree rules
2	come	infinitive	W'en not said here		dat		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dat=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	I	Tumbler		ole man nmod:desc	tree rules
4	fum	present		Tumblersville			tree rules
5	is a	present	I	dat			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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