Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 27
In ole times, 'fo' de wah, I ain't heer tell er no seventy-fi'- year-ole nigger grapplin' wid no meezles.
Who acts: I, ole nigger · What happens: not hear, tell, grapple · Speech: someone speaks here
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, ole nigger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:2130): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heer | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wah | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fo | punct |
| 6 | fo | before | ADP | _ | 9 wah | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fo | punct |
| 8 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wah | det |
| 9 | wah | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wah | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 heer | nsubj |
| 12 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 heer | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 heer | advmod |
| 14 | heer | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heer | xcomp |
| 16 | er | of | ADP | _ | 26 nigger | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 nigger | det |
| 18 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 fi | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 fi | punct |
| 20 | fi | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 year | nummod |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 fi | punct |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 year | punct |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ole | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ole | punct |
| 25 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nigger | amod |
| 26 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obl |
| 27 | grapplin | grapple | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 nigger | acl |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 grapplin | punct |
| 29 | wid | with | ADP | _ | 31 meezles | case |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 meezles | det |
| 31 | meezles | meezles | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grapplin | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 heer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · passive | I | time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | of no ole nigger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grapple | gerund | no ole nigger not said here | with no meezles | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with meezles=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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