Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 33
I ain't shuk her up sence I drapt in, but I lay she's loaded."
Who acts: I · What happens: not shuk up, drapt, lay, load · To what, where: Dat, sence
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 | 4 shuk | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | ai | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shuk | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shuk | advmod |
| 4 | shuk | shuk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shuk | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shuk | compound:prt |
| 7 | sence | sence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shuk | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 drapt | nsubj |
| 9 | drapt | drapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sence | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 drapt | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shuk | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loaded | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 loaded | aux:pass |
| 17 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lay | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shuk | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shuk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shuk up | I | Dat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drapt | present | I | sence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | load | present · passive | Dat | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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