Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 87

B'er Cooter say: 'Yes, B'er Deer, I dere too.'

Who acts: B'er Cooter · What happens: say · 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 Cooter), 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	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Cooter	compound
2	Cooter	cooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Deer	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 Deer	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 Deer	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
8	B'er	B'er	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Deer	compound
9	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dere	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 dere	nsubj
12	dere	dere	ADV	_	9 Deer	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 dere	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	B'er Cooter						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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