Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 31

I done seed deze yer Arkinsaw emmygrants come lopin' back, an' some un 'em didn't have rags nuff on 'em fer ter hide dere nakidness.

Who acts: I, Arkinsaw emmygrants, un, fer ter · What happens: done, come back, not have, hide · To what, where: seed deze, lopin, rags, have nuff

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, Arkinsaw emmygrants, un, fer ter), 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 done	nsubj
2	done	done	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deze	compound
4	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 done	obj
5	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 emmygrants	nmod:poss
6	Arkinsaw	Arkinsaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 emmygrants	compound
7	emmygrants	emmygrant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 done	parataxis
9	lopin	lopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lopin	punct
11	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nuff	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nuff	det
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 un	det
16	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj
17	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nuff	compound
21	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	obj
22	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hide	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 'em	case
24	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 nuff	nmod
25	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 ter	amod
26	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hide	nsubj
27	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 come	parataxis
28	dere	dere	ADV	_	29 nakidness	advmod
29	nakidness	nakidness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hide	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	done	present	I	seed deze	tree rules
2	come back	present	yer's Arkinsaw emmygrants	lopin	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lopin=Theme
3	not have	past · do-support	some un	rags	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rag=Patient
4	hide	present	fer ter	a have nuff on 'em	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nakidness=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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