Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 9

I done smelt de watermillion on de a'r, an' I ain't got no better sense dan fer ter go w'en I years w'ite fokes a-hollerin'--I larnt dat w'en I wa'n't so high.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, not get, go, w'en, year, foke · To what, where: an, dat w'en

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	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smelt	amod
3	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watermillion	compound
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 watermillion	compound
5	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 a'r	case
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 a'r	compound
8	a'r	a'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watermillion	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fokes	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fokes	obl
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
13	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 got	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 an	conj
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 better	advmod
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 got	xcomp
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dan	compound
19	dan	dan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 better	nsubj
20	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ter	compound
21	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dan	conj
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 got	ccomp
23	w'en	w'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 years	amod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 years	nsubj
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 go	obl:unmarked
26	w'ite	w'ite	X	Foreign=Yes	25 years	appos
27	fokes	foke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 watermillion	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hollerin	det
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 a	punct
30	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fokes	obj
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 hollerin	punct
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 larnt	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 larnt	nsubj
34	larnt	larnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fokes	conj
35	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 w'en	compound
36	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 larnt	obj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 wa'	nsubj
38	wa'	wa'	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 w'en	acl:relcl
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 high	advmod
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 high	advmod
41	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 larnt	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 watermillion	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle	I			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get	present	I		good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	infinitive	I not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	w'en	participle				tree rules
5	year		I			tree rules
6	foke	present		an		tree rules
7	larnt	present	I	dat w'en		tree rules
8	wa'	past	I	dat w'en not said here		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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