Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 2

"You'd be sorter puny, too, boss, if you'd er bin whar I bin."

Who acts: You, gentleman · What happens: be, er, bin · To what, where: bin whar

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, gentleman), 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	_	6 puny	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 puny	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 puny	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 puny	cop
5	sorter	sorter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 puny	amod
6	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 too	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 puny	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boss	punct
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puny	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 er	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 er	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 er	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 er	aux
15	er	er	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 puny	parataxis
16	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whar	compound
17	whar	whar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 er	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 bin	nsubj
19	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 whar	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 puny	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 puny	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	You		puny property	tree rules
2	er a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you	bin whar		tree rules
3	bin in a quote	present	a gentleman = gentleman	bin whar not said here		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whar=Theme

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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