Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 30

I'm a-talkin' wid de bark on.

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: talkin

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), 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	5 talkin	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talkin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 talkin	det
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 talkin	punct
5	talkin	talkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 talkin	punct
7	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bark	amod
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 bark	compound
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talkin	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 bark	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talkin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a talkin and wid de bark					tree rules

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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