Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 65

W'en dis come 'bout, ole Miss, she sont atter me en say, sez she:

Who acts: W'en dis, dis, en · What happens: come, atter, say · To what, where: bout, me, dis · 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 (W'en dis, dis, en), 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	W'en	w'en	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dis	amod
2	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bout	punct
5	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Miss	punct
7	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Miss	amod
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bout	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 atter	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 atter	nsubj
11	sont	sont	X	Foreign=Yes	12 atter	dep
12	atter	atter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 atter	obj
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 atter	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sez	punct
17	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	ccomp
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sez	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	present	W'en dis	bout ole Miss	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	atter	infinitive	dis	me	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	en		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present		dis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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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