Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 23

"My ole 'oman say de Ole Boy wouldn't a foun' a riper nigger, ef he wer' ter scour de country fum Ferginny ter de Alabam'"

Who acts: ole, riper nigger, Ole Boy · What happens: say, scour, not fum · To what, where: de, Ferginny ter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ole, riper nigger, Ole Boy), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ole	nmod:poss
3	ole	ole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 ole	punct
5	oman	oman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ole	conj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 say	obj
8	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Boy	compound
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fum	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fum	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fum	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 foun	det
13	foun	foun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fum	nsubj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 scour	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 nigger	det
16	riper	riper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nigger	compound
17	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scour	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ef	punct
19	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nigger	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 scour	nsubj
21	wer	wer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scour	nsubj
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 scour	punct
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scour	compound
24	scour	scour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fum	nsubj
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	26 country	compound
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scour	conj
27	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
28	Ferginny	Ferginny	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ter	compound
29	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fum	obj
30	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 Alabam	advmod
31	Alabam	Alabam	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 ter	appos
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 Alabam	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fum	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	My ole and oman	de	tree rules
2	scour in a quote		a riper nigger and ef		tree rules
3	not fum in a quote	would	Ole Boy	Ferginny ter	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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