Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 34

But w'en a nigger comes a jabberin' 'roun' like he got a mouf full er rice straw, he ain't got no mo' chance long side er me dan a sick sparrer wid a squinch-owl.

Who acts: man, mouf, chance long side, dan · What happens: w'en, come, get, straw, not get, er · To what, where: nigger, roun, mo, me, squinch owl

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 (man, mouf, chance long side, dan), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 w'en	cc
2	w'en	w'en	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comes	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nigger	det
4	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 w'en	obj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jabberin	det
7	jabberin	jabberin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roun	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 jabberin	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
10	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 roun	punct
12	like	like	SCONJ	_	14 got	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 got	nsubj
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 comes	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 straw	det
16	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 straw	nsubj
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 straw	amod
18	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rice	compound
19	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 straw	compound
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
23	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 got	advmod
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 comes	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 mo	det
27	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 got	punct
29	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 side	compound
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 side	amod
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 er	nsubj
32	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	parataxis
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 er	obj
34	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	38 wid	nsubj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sparrer	det
36	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sparrer	amod
37	sparrer	sparrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wid	nsubj
38	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 er	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 owl	det
40	squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 owl	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 squinch	punct
42	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wid	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	w'en	infinitive		a nigger	tree rules
2	come	present		a jabberin's roun	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	straw		mouf		tree rules
5	not get	present · passive	man	no mo	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus
6	er	past	chance long side	me	tree rules
7	wi	past	dan	a squinch owl	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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