Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 13
Den you'd a foun' me 'live an' kickin'."
Who acts: foun · What happens: live · To what, where: kickin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foun), 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 | Den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 'd | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 'd | nsubj |
| 3 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 foun | det |
| 5 | foun | foun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 foun | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 me | punct |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 'd | ccomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kickin | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 kickin | punct |
| 12 | kickin | kickin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 kickin | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 'd | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 'd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | infinitive | a foun | a kickin | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme kickin=Location |
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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