Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 4
I done had nuff watermillions yistiddy an' de day befo'."
Who acts: I · What happens: do, have · To what, where: nuff watermillions
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), 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 done | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 done | ccomp |
| 4 | nuff | nuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watermillions | compound |
| 5 | watermillions | watermillion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | yistiddy | yistiddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 watermillions | amod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 befo | det |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 befo | punct |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befo | compound |
| 11 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yistiddy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 befo | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I not said here | nuff watermillions | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watermillion=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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