Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 19

He had de water in a bucket, but dey ain't no tellin' how much red licker he wuz a totin'.

Who acts: er · What happens: de, wuz · To what, where: water, bucket, totin

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 (er), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 de	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 de	aux
3	de	de	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 de	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bucket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bucket	det
7	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 de	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ai	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 ai	cc
10	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ai	compound
11	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 de	parataxis
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tellin	advmod
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 tellin	det
14	tellin	tellin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ai	appos
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 licker	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 licker	amod
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 licker	amod
19	licker	licker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tellin	appos
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wuz	nsubj
21	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 licker	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 totin	det
23	totin	totin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wuz	obj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 totin	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 de	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	de	past · perfect	er	water		a bucket			tree rules
2	wuz	present	er	a totin					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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