Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 21

I wuz stannin' down dere by Mars John Jeems's bank, chattin' wid Sis Tempy, w'ich I ain't seed 'er befo' now gwine on seven year, an' watchin' de folks trompin' by, w'en one er deze yer slick-lookin' niggers, wid a bee-gum hat an' a brass watch ez big ez de head uv a beerbar'l, come long an' bresh up agin me--so.

Who acts: I · What happens: stannin, not be, wi, watch, come, bresh up · To what, where: seed, gum hat, ez big head uv, bresh agin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. 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	3 stannin	nsubj
2	wuz	wuz	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stannin	aux
3	stannin	stannin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 stannin	punct
5	down	down	ADP	_	6 dere	case
6	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stannin	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Mars	case
8	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dere	nmod
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bank	nmod:poss
10	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 John	flat
11	's	's	PART	_	9 John	case
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dere	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chattin	punct
14	chattin	chattin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dere	conj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 Sis	punct
16	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Sis	amod
17	Sis	Sis	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 chattin	appos
18	Tempy	Tempy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sis	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 w'ich	punct
20	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stannin	parataxis
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 seed	nsubj
22	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 seed	cop
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 seed	advmod
24	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 w'ich	appos
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 seed	punct
26	er	er	X	_	27 befo	compound
27	befo	befo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seed	conj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 befo	punct
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 gwine	advmod
30	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 befo	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 year	case
32	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 year	nummod
33	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gwine	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 watchin	punct
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 watchin	det
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 watchin	punct
37	watchin	watchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gwine	conj
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 watchin	punct
39	de	de	ADP	_	41 trompin	case
40	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 trompin	compound
41	trompin	trompin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 watchin	nmod
42	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 trompin	punct
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 w'en	case
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 by	punct
45	w'en	w'en	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 watchin	nmod
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 deze	nummod
47	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 deze	compound
48	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 w'en	conj
49	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 lookin	nmod:poss
50	slick	slick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 lookin	amod
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 slick	punct
52	lookin	lookin	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 deze	appos
53	'	'	PUNCT	_	52 lookin	punct
54	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lookin	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 wid	punct
56	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lookin	conj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 hat	det
58	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 gum	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 bee	punct
60	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 hat	compound
61	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wid	obj
62	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 brass	det
63	'	'	PUNCT	_	65 brass	punct
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 brass	det
65	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wid	obj
66	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	56 wid	parataxis
67	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 uv	amod
68	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 uv	amod
69	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 head	amod
70	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 head	compound
71	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 uv	compound
72	uv	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	66 watch	obj
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	74 beerbar'l	det
74	beerbar'l	beerbar'l	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 uv	appos
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 come	punct
76	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	66 watch	conj
77	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	82 agin	advmod
78	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	82 agin	det
79	'	'	PUNCT	_	80 bresh	punct
80	bresh	bresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	82 agin	compound
81	up	up	ADP	_	80 bresh	compound:prt
82	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 come	obl
83	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	82 agin	goeswith
84	--	--	PUNCT	_	85 so	punct
85	so	so	ADV	_	3 stannin	advmod
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stannin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stannin	present	I		down dere by Mars John's bank and chattin	tree rules
2	not is a	present	I	seed and er befo and gwine on seven year and a watchin de folks trompin by w'en and one er deze		tree rules
3	wi	past	I not said here	a gum hat		tree rules
4	watch	infinitive		ez big head uv		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ultra-violet=Theme
5	come	infinitive		a bresh agin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bresh up	infinitive				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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