Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 21

I'd take a pa'r er frosts in mine, ef I kotched cold fer it.

Who acts: I, ef · What happens: take, kotch · To what, where: frosts, cold fer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ef), 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	3 take	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pa'r	det
5	pa'r	pa'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 frosts	nmod:poss
6	er	er	PART	_	5 pa'r	case
7	frosts	frost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 mine	case
9	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 take	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kotched	punct
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kotched	nsubj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 kotched	nsubj
13	kotched	kotch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fer	amod
15	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kotched	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kotched	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	I	a pa'r's frosts				in mine	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frost=Value in my=Location
2	kotch	past	ef	cold fer					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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