Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 75

"'Daddy'--all Ole Miss's chilluns call me daddy--'Daddy,' he say, ''pears like dere's gwineter be mighty rough times 'roun' yer.

Who acts: chilluns, en, pears · What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: Daddy, yer, mighty roun · 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 (chilluns, en, pears), 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 Daddy	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Daddy	punct
3	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 call	obl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Daddy	punct
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Miss	det
7	Ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Miss	amod
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 chilluns	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Miss	case
10	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 call	nsubj
11	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 call	obj
13	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Daddy	compound
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 '	punct
15	'	's	PART	_	13 daddy	conj
16	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 call	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 call	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pears	punct
22	''	''	PUNCT	_	23 pears	punct
23	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 roun	nsubj
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 gwineter	case
25	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gwineter	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 dere	case
27	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pears	nmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 roun	cop
29	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 roun	amod
30	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 times	amod
31	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 roun	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 times	case
33	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 roun	punct
35	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	call speech: assert in a quote	present	all Ole Miss's chilluns	Daddy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	en	yer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yer=Topic
3	is a	infinitive	pears like dere's gwineter	rough times's mighty roun	time	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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