Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 19

"'Well, ef you gwineter sell 'im, Brer Rabbit,' sezee, 'sell him some'rs out'n dis naberhood, kase he done bin yer too long now,' sezee. '

Who acts: you, ef · What happens: gwineter, sell, do, bin · To what, where: ef, Brer Rabbit, some'rs, kase, yer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ef), 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	_	8 sell	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 ef	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 ef	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gwineter	nsubj
7	gwineter	gwineter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ef	acl:relcl
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 im	punct
10	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sell	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Rabbit	punct
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	compound
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sezee	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 sezee	punct
16	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbit	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sell	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 sell	punct
19	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sell	iobj
21	some'rs	some'r	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sell	obj
22	out'n	out'n	CCONJ	_	24 naberhood	cc
23	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 naberhood	compound
24	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 some'rs	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 kase	punct
26	kase	kase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 some'rs	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 done	nsubj
28	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 kase	acl:relcl
29	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	xcomp
30	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 bin	obj
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 now	advmod
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 bin	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sezee	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 sezee	punct
36	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bin	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sell	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	gwineter in a quote	present	you	ef not said here				tree rules
2	sell in a quote	infinitive	ef	Brer Rabbit				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	sell in a quote	infinitive		some'rs out'n dis naberhood and kase	ef			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some'r=Theme
4	do in a quote	past	ef	kase not said here				tree rules
5	bin in a quote	infinitive	ef not said here	yer		now	sezee obl	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yer=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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