Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 21
I ain't larnt nuthin' in books, 'en yit I kin count all de money I gits.
Who acts: I · What happens: not learn, count, get · To what, where: nuthin, books, money
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:2300): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 4 larnt | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 larnt | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 larnt | advmod |
| 4 | larnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | nuthin | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 larnt | obj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nuthin | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larnt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 count | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 en | punct |
| 11 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 count | cc |
| 12 | yit | yet | ADV | _ | 15 count | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 count | nsubj |
| 14 | kin | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 count | aux |
| 15 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 larnt | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 money | det |
| 17 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 money | det |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 count | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gits | nsubj |
| 20 | gits | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 money | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 larnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not learn | present · passive | I | nuthin | books | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | count | can | I | all money | yet | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | present | I | all money not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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