Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 48

I des wanter tell you dat I wish mighty bad Brer Tukkey Buzzard wuz here,' sezee.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, dat, wish · To what, where: mighty bad Buzzard wuz · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wanter	det
3	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dat	nsubj
6	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wish	nsubj
8	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wuz	amod
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wuz	amod
11	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Buzzard	compound
12	Tukkey	Tukkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Brer	flat
13	Buzzard	Buzzard	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wuz	compound
14	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wish	obj
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 wish	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sezee	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 sezee	punct
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wish	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	I			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dat	present	you			tree rules
3	wish	present	I	mighty bad Buzzard wuz	here	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wuz=Theme

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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