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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 9

Hit hope me up might'ly de udder day w'en I hear Miss Sally layin' down de law 'bout you en dem Favers chillun, yit, lo en behol's, de fus news I knows yer you is han'-in-glove wid um.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: hit, hope up, hear, know, be · To what, where: me, de day w'en, fus news, han

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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

advclobjcompound:prtadvmodcompoundcompoundcompoundoblnsubjparataxiscompoundcompoundobjpunctadvmodcompoundappospunctcaseoblcompoundcompoundcompoundparataxispunctconjpunctdiscoursecompoundconjcasepunctadvmodamodoblnsubjparataxisobjnsubjcopparataxispunctpunctcasepunctconjamodconjpunctrootHitVERBhopeVERBmePRONupADPmight'lyADVdeXudderNOUNdayNOUNw'enNOUNIPRONhearVERBMissPROPNSallyPROPNlayinNOUN'PUNCTdownADVdeXlawNOUN'PUNCTboutADPyouPRONenNOUNdemNOUNFaversNOUNchillunNOUN,PUNCTyitNOUN,PUNCTloINTJenNOUNbeholNOUN'sPART,PUNCTdeXfusADJnewsNOUNIPRONknowsVERByerPRONyouPRONisAUXhanNOUN'PUNCT-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTgloveNOUNwidADJumNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HithitVERBVerbForm=Inf2 hopeadvcl
2hopehopeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 hopeobj
4upupADP_2 hopecompound:prt
5might'lymight'lyADV_9 w'enadvmod
6dedeXForeign=Yes9 w'encompound
7udderudderNOUNNumber=Sing8 daycompound
8daydayNOUNNumber=Sing9 w'encompound
9w'enw'enNOUNNumber=Sing11 hearobl
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 hearnsubj
11hearhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 hopeparataxis
12MissMissPROPNNumber=Sing13 Sallycompound
13SallySallyPROPNNumber=Sing14 layincompound
14layinlayinNOUNNumber=Sing11 hearobj
15''PUNCT_18 lawpunct
16downdownADV_18 lawadvmod
17dedeXForeign=Yes18 lawcompound
18lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing14 layinappos
19''PUNCT_18 lawpunct
20boutboutADP_21 youcase
21youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs11 hearobl
22enenNOUNNumber=Sing25 chilluncompound
23demdemNOUNNumber=Sing24 Faverscompound
24FaversfaverNOUNNumber=Plur25 chilluncompound
25chillunchillunNOUNNumber=Sing11 hearparataxis
26,,PUNCT_27 yitpunct
27yityitNOUNNumber=Sing25 chillunconj
28,,PUNCT_31 beholpunct
29loloINTJ_31 beholdiscourse
30enenNOUNNumber=Sing31 beholcompound
31beholbeholNOUNNumber=Sing25 chillunconj
32's'sPART_31 beholcase
33,,PUNCT_36 newspunct
34dedeXForeign=Yes36 newsadvmod
35fusfusADJDegree=Pos36 newsamod
36newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing38 knowsobl
37IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 knowsnsubj
38knowsknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 chillunparataxis
39yeryerPRONPerson=2 PronType=Prs38 knowsobj
40youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs42 hannsubj
41isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin42 hancop
42hanhanNOUNNumber=Sing38 knowsparataxis
43''PUNCT_42 hanpunct
44--PUNCT_47 glovepunct
45ininADP_47 glovecase
46--PUNCT_45 inpunct
47glovegloveNOUNNumber=Sing42 hanconj
48widwidADJDegree=Pos49 umamod
49umumNOUNNumber=Sing47 gloveconj
50..PUNCT_2 hopepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hitinfinitivevn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2hope uppresentmetree rules
3hearpresentIde day w'enbout youvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer layin=Stimulus
4knowpresentIfus newsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer yer=Stimulus
5is apresentyouhan and glove and wid umtree 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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