Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 52

De war come des like I tell you, en marters sorter rock along same like dey allers did.

Who acts: De war, I, en marters · What happens: come, tell, do · To what, where: des, you · 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 (De war, I, en marters), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 war	compound
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 marters	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marters	compound
11	marters	marter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 did	nsubj
12	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rock	compound
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 marters	appos
14	along	along	ADP	_	15 same	case
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 marters	nmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 allers	case
17	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 allers	compound
18	allers	aller	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	present	De war	des		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location des=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past	en marters along same			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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