Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 47

"'You needn't talk less you wanter,' sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en I ain't keerin',' sezee. '

Who acts: You, Den · What happens: not talk, wanter, know, not be · To what, where: you, en

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Den), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talk	nsubj
4	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 wanter	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wanter	nsubj
9	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sezee	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 sezee	punct
12	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanter	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 knows	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 knows	nsubj
16	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 knows	obj
18	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 dar	advmod
19	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knows	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dar	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 keerin	nsubj
23	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 keerin	cop
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 keerin	advmod
25	keerin	keerin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 en	acl:relcl
26	',	',	PUNCT	_	25 keerin	punct
27	'	's	PART	_	25 keerin	case
28	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keerin	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	present	You			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wanter in a quote		you		less property	tree rules
3	know in a quote	present	Den	you		tree rules
4	not is in a quote	present	Den	en not said here	keerin 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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