Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIX. Mr. Fox Gets Into Serious Business, sentence 6

Nobody ain't never year w'at his name is, en ef dey did dey kep' de news mighty close fum me.

Who acts: name, dey, man · What happens: not w'at, be, kep, fum, name · To what, where: en ef dey, me

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 (name, dey, man), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 ai	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 w'at	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 w'at	advmod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 w'at	obl:unmarked
6	w'at	w'at	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ai	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dey	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
11	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	compound
12	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	compound
13	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 w'at	ccomp
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 kep	aux
15	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kep	nsubj
16	kep	kep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dey	acl:relcl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 kep	punct
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 news	compound
19	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nsubj
20	mighty	mighty	ADV	_	21 close	advmod
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kep	parataxis
22	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 close	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fum	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ai	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not w'at	past			year	tree rules
2	is a	present	man's name	en ef dey		tree rules
3	kep	past · do-support	dey	en ef dey not said here		tree rules
4	fum	infinitive	dey not said here	me		tree rules
5	name		man			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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