Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 28

I'm a mighty long-sufferin' nigger, but he hadn't no mo'n totch me 'fo' I flung dese yer bones in his face."

Who acts: I, Ellick · What happens: be, have, fling · To what, where: mighty nigger, mo'n totch, dese yer bones, face

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, Ellick), 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	9 nigger	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nigger	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nigger	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nigger	amod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sufferin	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
7	sufferin	sufferin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nigger	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 sufferin	case
9	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nigger	parataxis
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 totch	advmod
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 totch	det
16	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 totch	compound
17	totch	totch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 totch	goeswith
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 totch	punct
20	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	23 flung	mark
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 flung	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 flung	nsubj
23	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	advcl
24	dese	dese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bones	amod
25	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 bones	amod
26	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flung	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nigger	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 nigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	I	long sufferin's mighty nigger		tree rules
2	have	past	Ellick	no mo'n totch		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent totch=Patient
3	fling	past	I	dese yer bones	Ellick's face	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in face=Destination

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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