Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 101

Lemme git by, En see w'at she mean by de cut er dat eye!

Who acts: En, w'at, Lemme git · What happens: see, mean, cut · To what, where: Lemme git, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, w'at, Lemme git), 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	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 git	compound
2	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	nsubj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
5	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 git	acl
7	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	nsubj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 de	case
11	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mean	obl
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 cut	advmod
14	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive	En	Lemme git not said here		tree rules
2	mean	infinitive	w'at		by de	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	cut	past	Lemme git	that eye		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product

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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