Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. Mr. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin, sentence 47

"Ole man Tarrypin 'wuz at home I tell you, honey.

Who acts: Ole man, little boy · What happens: wuz, tell · To what, where: home, honey, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ole man, little boy), 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	_	6 wuz	punct
2	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	nsubj
4	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Tarrypin	case
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wuz	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honey	punct
13	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wuz in a quote		Ole man			home			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the little boy = boy	honey	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient honey=Topic

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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