Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 7

I don't wanter tell you no story, en ef you keep shovin' me forrerd, I mout git some er de facks mix up 'mong deyse'f.

Who acts: I, story, er de · What happens: not tell, keep, shovin, mout, fack, mix up · To what, where: you, me, git · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, story, er de), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ef	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ef	compound
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	appos
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
14	shovin	shovin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keep	xcomp
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 me	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 shovin	obl
17	forrerd	forrerd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shovin	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mout	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 mout	nsubj
20	mout	mout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	parataxis
21	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mout	obj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 de	det
23	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 de	compound
24	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 facks	nsubj
25	facks	fack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mout	parataxis
26	mix	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 facks	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 mix	compound:prt
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 deyse'f	punct
29	mong	mong	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deyse'f	compound
30	deyse'f	deyse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mix	vocative
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present · do-support	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep	present	no story				tree rules
3	shovin	gerund	no story not said here	me			tree rules
4	mout	present	I	git			tree rules
5	fack	present	some er de				tree rules
6	mix up	present	some er de not said here			mong deyse'f vocative	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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