Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 31

I'll show Miss Meadows en de gals dat I'm de boss er Brer Fox,' sezee.

Who acts: I, Miss Meadows · What happens: show, dat, be · To what, where: de boss · 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 (I, Miss Meadows), 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 show	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Meadows	compound
5	Meadows	Meadow	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 dat	nsubj
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gals	compound
7	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gals	compound
8	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dat	nsubj
9	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	ccomp
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 boss	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boss	cop
12	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boss	amod
13	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dat	ccomp
14	er	er	X	ExtPos=PROPN	13 boss	appos
15	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fox	compound
16	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sezee	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 sezee	punct
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 er	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	future	I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dat	present	Miss Meadows		tree rules
3	is a	present	I	de boss	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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