Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 84

As he git on to de nex' mile-pos', he say: 'B'er Cooter!'

Who acts: B'er · What happens: say · To what, where: mile pos · 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 (B'er), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 git	case
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 git	nsubj
3	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pos	obl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 nex	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 nex	case
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 nex	compound
7	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pos	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 nex	punct
9	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pos	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mile	punct
11	pos	pos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	',	',	PUNCT	_	11 pos	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 pos	acl:relcl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Cooter	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Cooter	punct
17	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Cooter	compound
18	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pos	parataxis
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 Cooter	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Cooter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	B'er	mile pos not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pos=Topic

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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