Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 16

Look like ter me dat I wuz gwineter be sick, an' den hit look like I wuzzent.

Who acts: you, I, den · What happens: look, wuz, be, hit, wuzzent · To what, where: gwineter

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 (you, I, den), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 me	case
3	ter	ter	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obl
5	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	7 wuz	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wuz	nsubj
7	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sick	advcl
8	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuz	obj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 sick	cop
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hit	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 den	det
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 den	punct
14	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sick	conj
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hit	xcomp
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	19 wuzzent	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wuzzent	nsubj
19	wuzzent	wuzzent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 look	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		like me	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	wuz	present	I	gwineter		tree rules
3	is	infinitive			sick property	tree rules
4	hit	past	a den			tree rules
5	look	infinitive	a den not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	wuzzent	present	I			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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