Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 20

I slipt inter bed one Chuseday night, an' I never slip out no mo' fer mighty nigh er mont'.

Who acts: I · What happens: slipt, not slip out · To what, where: inter bed, mo

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 (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	2 slipt	nsubj
2	slipt	slipt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bed	amod
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipt	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 night	nummod
6	Chuseday	Chuseday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 night	compound
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipt	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slip	punct
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 slip	det
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 slip	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 slip	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 slip	advmod
13	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 slipt	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 slip	compound:prt
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 mo	det
16	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slip	obj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 mighty	punct
18	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mighty	compound
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mo	appos
20	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	21 er	advmod
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 mont	advmod
22	mont	mont	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mighty	obl
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 mighty	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slipt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slipt	past	I	inter bed			night		tree rules
2	not slip out	present	I	no mo					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent mo=Patient

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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