Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 33

You er monstus stout, Brer B'ar,' sezee, 'en you pulls like a yoke er steers, but I sorter had de purchis on you,' sezee.

Who acts: You, yoke er, I · What happens: er, pull, steer, have · To what, where: monstus stout, en, de purchis

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, yoke er, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 er	nsubj
2	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	monstus	monstus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stout	compound
4	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 er	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Brer	punct
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stout	appos
7	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sezee	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 sezee	punct
10	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 en	punct
13	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulls	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 pulls	nsubj
15	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 er	parataxis
16	like	like	SCONJ	_	20 steers	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 er	det
18	yoke	yoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 er	compound
19	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 steers	nsubj
20	steers	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pulls	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pulls	conj
26	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	27 purchis	compound
27	purchis	purchis	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 had	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sezee	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 sezee	punct
32	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	er	present	You	monstus stout		tree rules
2	pull	present	you	en		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	steer	present	a yoke er			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	I	de purchis	on you; sezee obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchis=Patient

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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