Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 35

She had de powder in dar, sho', but I disremember wedder I put de buckshot in, er wedder I lef' um out.

Who acts: oman, I · What happens: de, disremember, put, lef · To what, where: powder, dar, de buckshot

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 (oman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 de	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 de	aux
3	de	de	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 de	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 dar	case
6	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 de	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sho	punct
8	sho	sho	NOUN	_	6 dar	conj
9	',	',	PUNCT	_	6 dar	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 disremember	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 disremember	nsubj
12	disremember	disremember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 put	advcl
13	wedder	wed	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 disremember	xcomp
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 de	parataxis
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	17 buckshot	compound
17	buckshot	buckshot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
18	in	in	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wedder	punct
20	er	er	INTJ	_	21 wedder	discourse
21	wedder	wed	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 put	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 lef	nsubj
23	lef	lef	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wedder	parataxis
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 um	punct
25	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lef	appos
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 um	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 de	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	de	past · perfect	oman	powder	dar and sho		tree rules
2	disremember	present	I			wed property	tree rules
3	put	past	I	de buckshot			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent buckshot=Goal
4	lef		I				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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