Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 24

En so you er de man w'at lam me on de head at Miss Meadows's is you?

Who acts: En, de man w'at · What happens: er, lam, be · To what, where: me, de head, you

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, de man w'at), 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	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 er	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 er	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 er	nsubj
4	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 w'at	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 w'at	compound
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lam	nsubj
8	lam	lam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 er	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 lam	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 head	compound
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lam	obl
13	at	at	SCONJ	_	18 you	mark
14	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Meadows	compound
15	Meadows	Meadows	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 you	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Meadows	case
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 you	cop
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 head	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	er	present	En			tree rules
2	lam	infinitive	de man w'at	me	de head	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Patient on head=Location
3	is a	present	de man w'at not said here	you		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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