Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 22

Gimme th'ee er fo' drams endurin' er de day, an' I'm mighty nigh ez good a tempunce man ez de next un.

Who acts: I · What happens: be

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	Gimme	Gimme	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 er	compound
2	th'ee	th'ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 er	compound
3	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	7 endurin	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 endurin	punct
6	drams	dram	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 endurin	compound
7	endurin	endurin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 er	nmod
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 endurin	punct
9	er	er	X	_	11 day	compound
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 er	flat:foreign
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 endurin	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 un	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 un	det
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 mighty	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 mighty	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mighty	cop
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 un	amod
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
19	ez	ez	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 un	amod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	tempunce	tempunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	compound
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 good	nsubj
24	ez	ez	X	Foreign=Yes	20 good	conj
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 ez	flat:foreign
26	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 un	amod
27	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 er	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					mighty property	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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