Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 13

I kin take a bar'l stave an' fling mo' sense inter a nigger in one minnit dan all de schoolhouses betwixt dis en de State er Midgigin.

Who acts: I · What happens: take, stave · To what, where: bar'l, fling mo

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. 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	3 take	nsubj
2	kin	kin	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bar'l	det
5	bar'l	bar'l	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	stave	stave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mo	det
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 mo	punct
9	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mo	compound
10	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stave	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 inter	punct
12	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inter	compound
13	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mo	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nigger	det
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inter	appos
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 minnit	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 minnit	nummod
18	minnit	minnit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nigger	conj
19	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	18 minnit	dep
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 schoolhouses	det
21	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 schoolhouses	amod
22	schoolhouses	schoolhouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nigger	nmod
23	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 en	amod
24	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 en	compound
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 schoolhouses	nmod
26	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 en	appos
27	State	State	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 de	flat
28	er	er	INTJ	_	29 Midgigin	discourse
29	Midgigin	Midgigin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 de	flat
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take		I	a bar'l					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar'l=Theme
2	stave	infinitive	I not said here	a fling mo and sense inter					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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