Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard, sentence 32

You er gittin' close at 'im,' sezee, 'en leb'm mo' licks'll fetch 'im,' sezee.

Who acts: You, mo licks · What happens: er, be, fetch · To what, where: gittin, leb mo, sezee

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Mr. Fox Is "outdone" By Mr. Buzzard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, mo licks), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 er	nsubj
2	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 er	obj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 gittin	punct
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gittin	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 im	case
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 im	punct
8	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sezee	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 sezee	punct
11	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 er	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leb	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 leb	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leb	compound
15	leb	leb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mo	compound
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mo	cop
17	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 licks	compound
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 mo	punct
19	licks	lick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fetch	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fetch	aux
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 er	parataxis
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 im	punct
23	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fetch	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	er	present	You	gittin	sezee obl	tree rules
2	is a	present		leb mo		tree rules
3	fetch	future	mo licks	sezee		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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