Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 21

En ef ole man M'thoozlum wuz livin' clean twel yit, he'd up'n tell you de same.

Who acts: yit, clean twel yit · What happens: up'n, tell · To what, where: clean twel yit, same, you · 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 (yit, clean twel yit), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ef	compound
2	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 livin	nsubj
3	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 livin	nsubj
5	M'thoozlum	M'thoozlum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 livin	compound
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 livin	compound
7	livin	livin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 livin	punct
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 yit	amod
10	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yit	compound
11	yit	yit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yit	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 up'n	nsubj
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 up'n	aux
15	up'n	up'n	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 yit	acl:relcl
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 livin	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 same	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 livin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	up'n	would	yit	clean twel yit not said here					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	clean twel yit	de same	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient same=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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