Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 15
I ain't no spishus nigger myse'f, but I 'spizes fer ter year dogs a howlin' an' squinch- owls havin' de agur out in de woods, an' w'en a bull goes a bellerin' by de house den my bones git col' an' my flesh commences fer ter creep; but w'en it comes ter deze yer sines in de a'r an' deze yer sperrits in de woods, den I'm out--den I'm done.
Who acts: I, havin agur, bones, flesh, fer ter, ter · What happens: agur out, go, col, commence, creep, w'en · To what, where: de woods, bellerin, ter deze, den
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, havin agur, bones, flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 myse'f | advmod |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 myse'f | det |
| 5 | spishus | spishus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 myse'f | amod |
| 6 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 myse'f | compound |
| 7 | myse'f | myse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 agur | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 agur | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 agur | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 spizes | punct |
| 12 | spizes | spiz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 agur | nsubj |
| 13 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 dogs | amod |
| 14 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 year | compound |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dogs | compound |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 agur | nsubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 howlin | det |
| 18 | howlin | howlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 agur | nsubj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 havin | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 havin | det |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 owls | punct |
| 22 | squinch | squinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owls | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 squinch | punct |
| 24 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 havin | compound |
| 25 | havin | havin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 agur | compound |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 havin | punct |
| 27 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 havin | conj |
| 28 | agur | agur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 goes | nsubj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 agur | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 woods | case |
| 31 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 woods | compound |
| 32 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 agur | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 w'en | punct |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 w'en | det |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 w'en | punct |
| 36 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 goes | nsubj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bull | det |
| 38 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 goes | nsubj |
| 39 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ai | parataxis |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bellerin | det |
| 41 | bellerin | bellerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 goes | obj |
| 42 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 bellerin | punct |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 den | case |
| 44 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 den | nmod:poss |
| 45 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 den | compound |
| 46 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 goes | obl |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 bones | nmod:poss |
| 48 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 col | nsubj |
| 49 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 col | compound |
| 50 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 den | conj |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 col | punct |
| 52 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 ' | conj |
| 53 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 56 commences | punct |
| 54 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 55 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 commences | nsubj |
| 56 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 an | conj |
| 57 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 58 ter | amod |
| 58 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 creep | nsubj |
| 59 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 commences | ccomp |
| 60 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 62 w'en | punct |
| 61 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 62 w'en | cc |
| 62 | w'en | w'en | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ai | conj |
| 63 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 comes | nsubj |
| 64 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 w'en | ccomp |
| 65 | ter | ter | X | _ | 66 deze | compound |
| 66 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 comes | obl |
| 67 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 68 sines | amod |
| 68 | sines | sine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 deze | conj |
| 69 | in | in | ADP | _ | 71 a'r | case |
| 70 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 71 a'r | compound |
| 71 | a'r | a'r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 sines | nmod |
| 72 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 74 deze | det |
| 73 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 74 deze | punct |
| 74 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 a'r | appos |
| 75 | yer | yer | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 76 sperrits | nmod:poss |
| 76 | sperrits | sperrit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 74 deze | conj |
| 77 | in | in | ADP | _ | 79 woods | case |
| 78 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 woods | compound |
| 79 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 76 sperrits | nmod |
| 80 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 81 den | punct |
| 81 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 deze | conj |
| 82 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 84 out | nsubj |
| 83 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 84 out | cop |
| 84 | out | out | ADV | _ | 81 den | acl:relcl |
| 85 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 86 den | punct |
| 86 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 deze | conj |
| 87 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 89 done | nsubj |
| 88 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 89 done | cop |
| 89 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 86 den | acl:relcl |
| 90 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agur out | I | de woods | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present | havin agur | a bellerin | by de's house den and git col | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bellerin=Theme | |||
| 3 | col | my bones | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | commence | present | my flesh | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | creep | present | fer ter | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | w'en | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | come | present | ter | ter deze and yer sines in de a'r | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | I | den not said here | out property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | is | present | I | den not said here | done 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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