Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear, sentence 19

Leas'ways dat's w'at dey tells me, en I ain't never yearn it 'sputed."

Who acts: w'at dey, I · What happens: tell, not yearn · To what, where: en, me, dey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVIII. the End of Mr. Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'at dey, 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	Leas'ways	leas'ways	ADV	_	6 tells	advmod
2	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dey	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dat	case
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dey	compound
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 en	punct
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 yearn	nsubj
11	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 yearn	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 yearn	advmod
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 yearn	advmod
14	yearn	yearn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 en	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 yearn	obj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 yearn	punct
17	sputed	sputed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 yearn	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	dat's w'at dey	en	me			leas'ways property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient en=Topic
2	not yearn	present	I	dey				sputed property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/31/19/