Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 16

I done see too much er dis nigger tempunce.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, see · To what, where: er nigger tempunce

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 (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	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 done	xcomp
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 er	advmod
6	er	e	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 tempunce	amod
7	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nigger	compound
8	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tempunce	compound
9	tempunce	tempunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
10	.	.	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	see	infinitive	I not said here	er nigger tempunce					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tempunce=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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