Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. the Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow, sentence 41

I hear tell you gwine ter sen' me ter 'struckshun, en nab my fambly, en 'stroy my shanty,' sezee.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, nab, stroy · To what, where: gwine ter sen, you, shanty · 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), 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 tell	nsubj
2	hear	hear	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sen	amod
6	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sen	compound
7	sen	sen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 me	punct
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sen	conj
10	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 struckshun	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 ter	case
12	struckshun	struckshun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sen	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 struckshun	conj
15	nab	nab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tell	ccomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fambly	nmod:poss
17	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	15 nab	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	parataxis
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 stroy	punct
21	stroy	stroy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 en	parataxis
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shanty	nmod:poss
23	shanty	shanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stroy	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shanty	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert		I	gwine ter sen	you		tree rules
2	nab	infinitive				fambly property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stroy	infinitive		my shanty and sezee			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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