Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 15

I santered roun' 'bout er half nour, an den I begin fer ter feel sorter squeemish--sorter like I done bin an, swoller'd 'bout fo' poun's off'n de ruff een' uv er scantlin'.

Who acts: I, fer ter, sorter squeemish · What happens: santer, begin, feel, done, bin · To what, where: roun bout, den, bout

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fer ter, sorter squeemish), 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 santered	nsubj
2	santered	santer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bout	compound
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 roun	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 roun	punct
6	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 santered	obj
7	er	er	ADV	_	2 santered	advmod
8	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 nour	det:predet
9	nour	nour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 santered	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 den	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 den	det
12	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 begin	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
14	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nour	acl:relcl
15	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 ter	amod
16	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feel	nsubj
17	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 begin	ccomp
18	sorter	sorter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 squeemish	amod
19	squeemish	squeemish	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 done	nsubj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 sorter	punct
21	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 squeemish	conj
22	like	like	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
24	done	done	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 feel	ccomp
25	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 done	xcomp
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bout	det
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 'd	punct
28	swoller	swoller	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 'd	nsubj
29	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 bout	aux
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 'd	punct
31	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bin	obj
32	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	36 off'n	case
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 poun	punct
34	poun	poun	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 off'n	compound
35	's	's	PART	_	34 poun	case
36	off'n	off'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bin	obl
37	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 een	amod
38	ruff	ruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 een	compound
39	een	een	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 off'n	conj
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 uv	punct
41	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	43 scantlin	compound
42	er	er	X	_	43 scantlin	compound
43	scantlin	scantlin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 een	appos
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 scantlin	punct
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 santered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	santer	past	I	roun bout		tree rules
2	begin	present	I	a den		tree rules
3	feel	present	fer ter			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	done	present	sorter squeemish and sorter			tree rules
5	bin	infinitive	sorter squeemish and sorter not said here	a bout	for poun off'n and de ruff een	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bout=Theme

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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