Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 34

"Den Brer B'ar, bein's his mouf 'gun ter water atter de sweetnin,' he up'n say he speck de candy's ripe, en off dey put atter it!"

Who acts: gun, up'n · What happens: say, speck · To what, where: ripe en · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (gun, up'n), 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	_	2 Den	punct
2	Den	Den	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 atter	nsubj
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Den	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mouf	punct
6	bein	bein	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mouf	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bein	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouf	nmod:poss
9	mouf	mouf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 atter	nsubj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 mouf	punct
11	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 atter	nsubj
12	ter	t	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 atter	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 atter	compound
14	atter	atter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 sweetnin	compound
16	sweetnin	sweetnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 atter	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
20	up'n	up'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 atter	parataxis
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speck	nsubj
23	speck	speck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	ccomp
24	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 candy	amod
25	candy	candy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 en	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 candy	case
27	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 en	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ripe	punct
29	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 speck	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	32 put	case
31	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	compound
32	put	put	ADV	Typo=Yes	23 speck	obl
33	atter	atter	X	_	32 put	goeswith
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 put	goeswith
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 atter	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 atter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express in a quote	infinitive	gun						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speck in a quote	infinitive	up'n	de candy's ripe en					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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