Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 31

Ain't I put de gun right on 'im?

Who acts: I · What happens: not put · To what, where: Ai, im

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), 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl:unmarked
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 put	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 gun	compound
6	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 im	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 im	punct
10	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	past	I	Ai		im		right property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme on im=Destination

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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