Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 34

"Dey er too lazy ter wuk," he was saying, "en dey specks hones' fokes fer ter stan' up en s'port um.

Who acts: er, en dey · What happens: say, speck · To what, where: fokes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (er, en dey), 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	_	7 wuk	punct
2	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 er	compound
3	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuk	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 lazy	advmod
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wuk	amod
6	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wuk	compound
7	wuk	wuk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wuk	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	aux
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 wuk	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 specks	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 specks	punct
15	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dey	compound
16	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 specks	nsubj
17	specks	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	conj
18	hones	hone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fokes	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 hones	case
20	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 specks	obj
21	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 specks	xcomp
22	ter	ter	ADP	_	23 stan	case
23	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fer	obl
24	'	's	PART	_	23 stan	case
25	up	up	ADP	_	28 um	case
26	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
27	s'port	s'port	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 um	compound
28	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wuk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · progressive	er						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	speck in a quote	present	en dey	hones's fokes				f property	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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