Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 17

"Lemme tell you dis," said the old man, laying down the section of horse-collar he had been plaiting, and looking hard at the little boy--"lemme tell you dis der ain't no way fer ter make tattlers en tailb'arers turn out good.

Who acts: Lemme, old man, man, laying, fer ter, en tailb'arers · What happens: tell, say, lay down, plait, look, not make · To what, where: dis, you, section, horse collar, lemme, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lemme, old man, man, laying), 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 tell	punct
2	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laying	punct
13	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 tell	csubj
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 section	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 section	det
16	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laying	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 collar	case
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 collar	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 horse	punct
20	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 section	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 plaiting	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plaiting	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 plaiting	aux
24	plaiting	plait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 collar	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looking	cc
27	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 laying	conj
28	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 looking	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 boy	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 boy	amod
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looking	obl
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 lemme	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 lemme	punct
35	lemme	lemme	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looking	obl
36	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obj
39	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 ai	amod
40	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tell	obj
41	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 make	advmod
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 make	obl:unmarked
44	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 ter	amod
45	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 make	nsubj
46	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	advcl
47	tattlers	tattler	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 make	obj
48	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 tailb'arers	compound
49	tailb'arers	tailb'arer	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 turn	nsubj
50	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 make	conj
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 turn	compound:prt
52	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 turn	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Lemme	dis	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dis=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lay down	gerund		the section of horse collar			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent section=Result
4	plait	past · perfect · progressive	man	horse collar not said here			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient
5	look	gerund		lemme		at the little boy; hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	laying	dis	you		tree rules
7	not make in a quote	present	fer ter	no way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tattler=Product
8	turn out in a quote	present	en tailb'arers			good property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	section			horse collar			nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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