Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 23

He shined like de paint on 'im was fresh.

Who acts: riz, im · What happens: shin, be

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 (riz, im), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shined	nsubj
2	shined	shin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 paint	case
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paint	amod
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shined	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 fresh	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 fresh	punct
8	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fresh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fresh	cop
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shined	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shin	past	riz					like de paint	tree rules
2	is	past	im					fresh property	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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