Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 32

"'Dat las' pull er yone wuz a mighty stiff un, en a leetle mo'n you'd er had me,' sezee. '

Who acts: you, las · What happens: have, pull · To what, where: den

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, las), 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	_	8 yone	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 pull	punct
3	Dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 las	det
4	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pull	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 las	case
6	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yone	compound
7	er	er	X	_	8 yone	compound
8	yone	yone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	wuz	wuz	X	Foreign=Yes	8 yone	flat:foreign
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 un	det
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 un	amod
12	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 un	amod
13	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yone	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 en	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 un	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mo'n	det
17	leetle	leetle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mo'n	amod
18	mo'n	mo'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 en	appos
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
20	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 had	aux
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 had	advmod
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mo'n	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 sezee	punct
26	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mo'n	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 mo'n	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 mo'n	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	would	you	den					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	pull in a quote		that las						nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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