Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About, sentence 15

But, bless grashus! sech a racket wuz a gwine on dat nobody ain't hear it, 'ceppin' maybe de Mud Turkle en de Spring Lizzud, en dere enfloons wuz pow'ful lackin'.

Who acts: bless grashus, gwine · What happens: sech, not be · To what, where: racket wuz

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. the Story of the Deluge and How It Came About. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bless grashus, gwine), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sech	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grashus	punct
3	bless	bless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grashus	amod
4	grashus	grashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sech	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 grashus	punct
6	sech	sech	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wuz	det
8	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wuz	compound
9	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sech	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gwine	det
11	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hear	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 dat	case
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gwine	nmod
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 hear	nsubj
15	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	cop
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hear	advmod
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sech	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ceppin	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 ceppin	punct
21	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sech	parataxis
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 ceppin	punct
23	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	27 en	advmod
24	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 en	compound
25	Mud	Mud	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 en	compound
26	Turkle	Turkle	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 en	compound
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sech	obl
28	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 en	appos
29	Spring	Spring	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 de	flat
30	Lizzud	Lizzud	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 de	flat
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enfloons	punct
32	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dere	compound
33	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enfloons	compound
34	enfloons	enfloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 en	conj
35	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lackin	compound
36	pow'ful	pow'ful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lackin	amod
37	lackin	lackin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enfloons	nmod
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 lackin	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sech	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sech	infinitive	bless grashus	a racket wuz				de Mud Turkle en and dere enfloons wuz pow'ful lackin obl	tree rules
2	not is	present	a gwine on dat					hear property	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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