Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 33

"'I'm gwine tell Brer Fox!

Who acts: old man, gwine · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: Brer Fox · 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 (old man, gwine), 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 tell	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 gwine	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gwine	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gwine	cop
5	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fox	compound
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the old man = man					gwine property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	gwine		Brer Fox				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient

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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