Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 24

But now dat I got you, I'll des 'bout settle wid you fer de ole en de new.'

Who acts: I · What happens: get, settle · To what, where: you, dat

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 dat	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dat	advmod
3	dat	dat	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 settle	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dat	acl:relcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dat	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 settle	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 settle	aux
10	des	de	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bout	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 des	case
12	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 settle	nsubj
13	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 settle	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 settle	obj
16	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 en	amod
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 en	compound
18	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 en	amod
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 settle	obj
20	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 en	conj
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 de	amod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 settle	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 settle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	I	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	settle	future	I	dat					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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