Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 5
I ain't turnin' nothin' loose on chu'ch 'scriptions.
Who acts: I · What happens: not turnin · To what, where: nothin
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 | 4 turnin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 turnin | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 turnin | advmod |
| 4 | turnin | turnin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothin | punct |
| 6 | nothin | nothin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turnin | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothin | punct |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 4 turnin | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 scriptions | case |
| 10 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scriptions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 chu'ch | case |
| 12 | scriptions | scription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 loose | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turnin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turnin | present · progressive | I | nothin | loose 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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