Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 90

B'er Deer say: 'Ki! it look like you gwine fer tie me; it look like we gwine fer de gal tie!'

Who acts: B'er Deer, it, you, Hullo · What happens: say, look, gwine, tie · To what, where: Ki, me, fer gal tie · 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 Deer, it, you, Hullo), 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 Deer	compound
2	Deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Ki	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Ki	punct
6	Ki	ki	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 gwine	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gwine	nsubj
12	gwine	gwine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	advcl
13	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 gwine	xcomp
14	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gwine	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tie	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 look	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	nsubj
18	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 we	case
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fer	compound
22	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tie	compound
23	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gal	compound
24	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tie	compound
25	tie	tie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 tie	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 tie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	B'er Deer	Ki		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ki=Topic
2	look	present	it			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	gwine	present	you		f property	tree rules
4	tie	infinitive	you not said here	me		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	look	present	Hullo	fer gal tie	like we	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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