Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 23

I got ter scuffle fer sump'n t'eat."

Who acts: I · What happens: get · To what, where: ter sump'n t'eat

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 t'eat	amod
4	scuffle	scuffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fer	compound
5	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sump'n	compound
6	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 t'eat	compound
7	t'eat	t'eat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	I	ter sump'n t'eat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer t'eat=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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