Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 62

"'Remus,' sez she, 'dish yer's w'at de papers say 'bout my baby,' en den she'd read out twel she couldn't read fer cryin'.

Who acts: Remus, w'at de papers, lady · What happens: say, read out, not read · To what, where: lady, dish, twel, fer cryin · 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 (Remus, w'at de papers, lady), 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	_	3 Remus	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Remus	punct
3	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sez	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Remus	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Remus	punct
6	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sez	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dish	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 dish	punct
10	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sez	obl
11	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 papers	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 yer	case
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 papers	compound
14	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 papers	compound
15	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dish	acl:relcl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
18	bout	bout	ADP	_	20 baby	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 baby	nmod:poss
20	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 read	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 den	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 den	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 den	compound
24	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 baby	conj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 read	nsubj
26	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 read	aux
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 read	compound:prt
29	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 read	obj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 read	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 read	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 read	advmod
33	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 twel	acl:relcl
34	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 cryin	amod
35	cryin	cryin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 read	obj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 cryin	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sez	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Remus	lady	dish obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	yer's w'at de papers	dish not said here		tree rules
3	read out in a quote	would	lady	twel	bout my baby and en den	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twel=Topic
4	not read in a quote	could	lady	fer cryin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cryin=Topic

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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