Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 25

I 'clar' ter grashus ef dat jug ain't a caution!"

Who acts: ter · What happens: not caution

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ter), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 clar	nsubj
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 clar	punct
3	clar	clar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 clar	punct
5	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	13 caution	nsubj
6	grashus	grashus	X	Foreign=Yes	5 ter	flat:foreign
7	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	flat
8	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ai	amod
9	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ai	compound
10	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ter	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 caution	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 caution	det
13	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clar	conj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 caution	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 caution	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not caution speech: other		ter and dat jug ai						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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