Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 60

Ole Miss useter call me up Sunday en read w'at de papers say 'bout Mars Jeems, en it ho'p 'er up might'ly.

Who acts: Sunday en, w'at de papers, bout · What happens: call up, read, say, ho'p · To what, where: me · 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 (Sunday en, w'at de papers, bout), 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	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 useter	amod
2	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 useter	compound
3	useter	useter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	compound
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 read	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 call	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 call	compound:prt
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 en	compound
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 read	nsubj
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 papers	compound
11	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 papers	compound
12	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 read	ccomp
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 bout	punct
15	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ho'p	nsubj
16	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bout	appos
17	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mars	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ho'p	compound
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ho'p	nsubj
21	ho'p	ho'p	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 say	ccomp
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 ho'p	punct
23	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 ho'p	advmod
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 er	compound:prt
25	might'ly	might'ly	ADV	_	23 er	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	infinitive	Sunday en not said here	me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	read	past	Sunday en		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	w'at de papers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	ho'p		bout		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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