Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 9

"Dat's w'at's I'm a 'quirin' inter now, but I wouldn't be sustonished ef I ain't laid a nigger out some'rs on de subbubs.

Who acts: w'at, policeman · What happens: be, not be, not lay out · To what, where: quirin inter, sustonished ef, nigger

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 (w'at, policeman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 inter	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 w'at	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dat	case
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inter	nsubj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 w'at	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 inter	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 inter	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 inter	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 quirin	punct
10	quirin	quirin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inter	compound
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 quirin	punct
12	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 inter	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ef	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 ef	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ef	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ef	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 ef	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ef	cop
20	sustonished	sustonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ef	amod
21	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inter	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 laid	nsubj
23	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 laid	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 laid	advmod
25	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 ef	acl:relcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 nigger	det
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 laid	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	25 laid	compound:prt
29	some'rs	some'r	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laid	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 subbubs	case
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 subbubs	compound
32	subbubs	subbub	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 some'rs	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 inter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dat's w'at	a quirin inter but sustonished ef	now	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	would	the policeman = policeman	sustonished ef		tree rules
3	not lay out in a quote	present · passive	the policeman = policeman	a nigger		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent nigger=Theme some'r=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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