Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 19
I done had lots er trubble wid dem chickens, an' w'en I years wun un um squall my ve'y shoes comes ontied.
Who acts: I, trubble, w'en · What happens: do, have, chicken, wun, squall, come · To what, where: lots, un um, ve'y shoes, wid dem chickens
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, trubble, w'en), 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 | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 done | ccomp |
| 4 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 chickens | advmod |
| 6 | trubble | trubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chickens | nsubj |
| 7 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chickens | amod |
| 8 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chickens | compound |
| 9 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lots | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'en | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 w'en | det |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 w'en | punct |
| 13 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wun | nsubj |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wun | nsubj |
| 16 | wun | wun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 17 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 um | compound |
| 18 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wun | obj |
| 19 | squall | squall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wun | xcomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ve'y | ve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shoes | compound |
| 22 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 squall | obj |
| 23 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chickens | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ontied | ontied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comes | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I not said here | lots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | chicken | trubble | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | wun | present | I | un um | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | squall speech: other | infinitive | I not said here | my ve'y shoes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come | present | a w'en | wid dem chickens not said here | ontied property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chicken=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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