Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 11
"An' I ain't puttin' my han' ter no reckommends.
Who acts: Uncle Remus · What happens: not be · To what, where: puttin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 puttin | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puttin | det |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 puttin | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 puttin | nsubj |
| 5 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 puttin | cop |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 puttin | advmod |
| 7 | puttin | puttin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 han | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 han | nmod:poss |
| 10 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puttin | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 han | punct |
| 12 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 14 reckommends | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 reckommends | det |
| 14 | reckommends | reckommend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 puttin | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 puttin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | Uncle Remus = remus | a puttin | ter no reckommends | 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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