Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 23

I gin a man a fi'-dollar bill 'fo' I lef' Jonesboro, an' he sed dat settled it."

Who acts: I, fi, man, dat · What happens: gin, bill, s, settle · To what, where: man, Jonesboro, fi

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fi, man, dat), 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 gin	nsubj
2	gin	gin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gin	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fi	det
6	fi	fi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bill	nsubj
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fi	punct
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dollar	punct
9	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bill	compound
10	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gin	parataxis
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bill	punct
12	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	15 lef	case
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 lef	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lef	nsubj
15	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gin	obl
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Jonesboro	punct
17	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lef	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sed	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sed	det
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 sed	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sed	nsubj
22	sed	s	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Jonesboro	acl:relcl
23	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 settled	nsubj
24	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 settled	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 Jonesboro	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 Jonesboro	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gin	present	I	a man	for lef	tree rules
2	bill		a fi			tree rules
3	s	past	man	Jonesboro not said here		tree rules
4	settle	past	dat	fi		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location

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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