Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 29

I sed dat jug wuz seetful, an' I sticks to it.

Who acts: I · What happens: s, stick · To what, where: jug wuz, wuz

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sed	nsubj
2	sed	s	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wuz	det
4	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wuz	compound
5	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sed	obj
6	seetful	seetful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sticks	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sticks	det
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 sticks	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sticks	nsubj
11	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sed	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sticks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	s	past	I	that jug wuz				seetful property	tree rules
2	stick	present	I		wuz				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient

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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