Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. Mr. Terrapin Appears Upon the Scene, sentence 51

"'Who? me?' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee; 'w'y I des tuck en tole 'im dat ef he didn't go 'long home en stop playin' his pranks on spectubble fokes, dat I'd take 'im out and th'ash 'im,' sezee."

Who acts: little boy, Brer, long home en · What happens: say, tuck, not go, stop, take, im out · To what, where: Brer, w'y, playin, dat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little boy, Brer, long home en), 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	_	3 Who	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Who	punct
3	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sez	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Who	punct
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 Who	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Who	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Who	punct
8	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sez	obj
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Brer	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sezee	punct
12	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Brer	appos
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tuck	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 w'y	punct
15	w'y	w'y	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tuck	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tuck	nsubj
17	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tuck	det
18	tuck	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sez	parataxis
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tole	compound
20	tole	tole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tuck	obj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 tole	punct
22	im	im	ADP	_	24 ef	case
23	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ef	compound
24	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 go	advmod
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tuck	parataxis
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 stop	punct
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 en	amod
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 en	compound
32	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stop	nsubj
33	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	conj
34	playin	playin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stop	obj
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 stop	punct
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 pranks	nmod:poss
37	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stop	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 fokes	case
39	spectubble	spectubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fokes	compound
40	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 pranks	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dat	punct
42	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fokes	conj
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 take	nsubj
44	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 take	aux
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 dat	acl:relcl
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 im	punct
47	im	im	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 take	conj
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 im	compound:prt
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 im	cc
50	th'ash	th'ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 im	compound
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 th'ash	punct
52	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 im	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 sezee	punct
54	'	'	PUNCT	_	55 sezee	punct
55	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 im	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 tuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present		Brer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
2	tuck in a quote	present	the little boy = boy	w'y		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tole=Theme
3	not go in a quote	past · do-support	Brer		im dat ef	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop in a quote	present	long home en	playin		tree rules
5	take in a quote	would	the little boy = boy	dat not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Theme
6	im out in a quote	infinitive	the little boy = boy not said here			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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