Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1, sentence 44

"'You'll hatter skuze me, Brer Blacksmif, kase I dun had 'speunce 'longer you.

Who acts: You, head en, kase dun · What happens: skuze, dun, have · To what, where: head en, speunce

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXII. "jacky-my-lantern" *1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, head en, kase dun), 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	_	6 skuze	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 skuze	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 skuze	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 skuze	aux
5	hatter	hatt	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 skuze	advmod
6	skuze	skuze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 skuze	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Brer	punct
9	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 skuze	obj
10	Blacksmif	Blacksmif	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Brer	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	kase	kase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dun	compound
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 dun	nsubj
14	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 skuze	parataxis
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 speunce	punct
17	speunce	speunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 speunce	punct
19	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 had	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 longer	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 skuze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	skuze in a quote	future	You	boy's head en = en	hatt property	tree rules
2	dun in a quote		boy's head en = en			tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	kase dun	speunce	long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speunce=Patient

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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