Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIV. the Sad Fate of Mr. Fox, sentence 73

Ef you'll clime up on my back," he continued, speaking softly, "I speck I ain't too ole fer ter be yo' hoss fum yer ter de house.

Who acts: you, Ef, I, ole yo hoss · What happens: clime, continue, speak, speck, be, fum · To what, where: ter yo, ter house · 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 (you, Ef, I, ole yo hoss), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 continued	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 clime	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clime	aux
4	clime	clime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ef	appos
5	up	up	ADP	_	1 Ef	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ef	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ef	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 continued	nsubj
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speaking	punct
14	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 continued	advcl
15	softly	softly	ADV	_	14 speaking	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speck	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 speck	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 speck	nsubj
19	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 speaking	conj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ai	nsubj
21	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speck	ccomp
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 ole	advmod
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 ole	advmod
24	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hoss	amod
25	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ter	compound
26	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 yo	compound
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 yo	cop
28	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hoss	compound
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 yo	punct
30	hoss	hoss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fum	nsubj
31	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ai	ccomp
32	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 house	nmod:poss
33	ter	ter	X	_	35 house	compound
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	33 ter	flat:foreign
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fum	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clime	future	you			tree rules
2	continue in a quote	past	Ef on my back			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	speak speech: other in a quote	gerund	Ef on my back not said here		softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speck	present	I			tree rules
5	is a	infinitive		ter yo		tree rules
6	fum	infinitive	ole yo hoss	yer's ter house		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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