Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman, sentence 30

I des say ter myse'f dat I'd sorter sprize you all wid a mess er fishes fer dinner, en so here I is, en dar's de fishes.

Who acts: I, you, mess er · What happens: say, sprize, wid, fish, be · To what, where: ter myse'f dat, fer dinner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, mess er), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	des	des	X	Foreign=Yes	3 say	dep
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
5	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dat	compound
6	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 'd	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dat	acl:relcl
9	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprize	compound
10	sprize	sprize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 'd	xcomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 wid	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 wid	advmod
13	wid	wid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sprize	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 er	det
15	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 er	compound
16	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fishes	nsubj
17	fishes	fish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wid	ccomp
18	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 dinner	amod
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fishes	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dinner	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 here	advmod
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fishes	parataxis
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 here	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fishes	punct
27	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dar	compound
28	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fishes	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 dar	case
30	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fishes	amod
31	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fishes	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	I	ter myse'f dat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dat=Topic
2	sprize	infinitive	I not said here			tree rules
3	wid	present	you			tree rules
4	fish	present	a mess er	fer dinner and en		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme
5	is	present	I		here property	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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