Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 77

So de young lady say to B'er Deer and B'er Cooter bofe dat dey mus' hab a ten-mile race, an de one dat beats, she will go marry him.

Who acts: de young lady, de one dat, lady · What happens: say, beat, go, marry · To what, where: B'er, dat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de young lady, de one dat, lady), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
2	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 B'er	case
7	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 B'er	flat
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 B'er	cc
10	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 B'er	conj
11	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bofe	compound
12	bofe	bofe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	compound
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dey	compound
14	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mus	compound
15	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 B'er	appos
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 hab	punct
17	hab	hab	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mus	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 race	det
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 mile	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ten	punct
21	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 race	compound
22	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hab	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beats	punct
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dat	det
25	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dat	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dat	compound
27	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beats	nsubj
28	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 race	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beats	ccomp
33	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 marry	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	de young lady		B'er and B'er	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to b'er=Recipient
2	beat	present	a de one dat			tree rules
3	go	future	lady			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	infinitive	lady not said here	dat		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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