Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 5

Dey ain't no ole nigger my age an' size dat's had no rattliner time dan I is."

Who acts: size dat, I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: rattliner time dan

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 (size dat, 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ai	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 ai	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 nigger	det
5	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nigger	amod
6	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ai	obj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 age	nmod:poss
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ai	obj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dat	det
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 dat	punct
11	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dat	compound
12	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
13	's	's	PART	_	12 dat	case
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ai	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 dan	det
16	rattliner	rattliner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dan	compound
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dan	compound
18	dan	dan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dan	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a size dat	no rattliner time dan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dan=Patient
2	be	present	I	no rattliner time dan not said here					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dan=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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