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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 77

Tain't likely dey'll pester mother ner sister; but, daddy, ef de wus come ter de wus, I speck you ter take keer un um,' sezee.

Who acts: likely dey, daddy wus, I · What happens: not pester, come, speck, take · To what, where: ner sister, ter wus, you, keer un um

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 (likely dey, daddy wus, I), 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

depadvmodamodnsubjauxcompoundcompoundobjpunctccpunctcompoundpunctconjflat:foreignnsubjconjcompoundflat:foreignobjpunctnsubjconjobjmarkadvclcompoundcompoundobjpunctpunctconjpunctrootTaiXn'tPARTlikelyADJdeyNOUN'llAUXpesterVERBmotherNOUNnerNOUNsisterNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJ,PUNCTdaddyNOUN,PUNCTefNOUNdeXwusNOUNcomeVERBterXdeXwusNOUN,PUNCTIPRONspeckVERByouPRONterPARTtakeVERBkeerNOUNunNOUNumNOUN,PUNCT'PUNCTsezeeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TaiTaiXForeign=Yes6 pesterdep
2n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 pesteradvmod
3likelylikelyADJDegree=Pos4 deyamod
4deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing6 pesternsubj
5'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin6 pesteraux
6pesterpesterVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing8 nercompound
8nernerNOUNNumber=Sing9 sistercompound
9sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing6 pesterobj
10;;PUNCT_18 comepunct
11butbutCCONJ_18 comecc
12,,PUNCT_13 daddypunct
13daddydaddyNOUNNumber=Sing17 wuscompound
14,,PUNCT_15 efpunct
15efefNOUNNumber=Sing13 daddyconj
16dedeXForeign=Yes15 efflat:foreign
17wuswuNOUNNumber=Plur18 comensubj
18comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 pesterconj
19terterX_21 wuscompound
20dedeXForeign=Yes19 terflat:foreign
21wuswusNOUNNumber=Sing18 comeobj
22,,PUNCT_24 speckpunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 specknsubj
24speckspeckVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 comeconj
25youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs24 speckobj
26terterPART_27 takemark
27taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf24 speckadvcl
28keerkeerNOUNNumber=Sing30 umcompound
29ununNOUNNumber=Sing30 umcompound
30umumNOUNNumber=Sing27 takeobj
31,,PUNCT_33 sezeepunct
32''PUNCT_33 sezeepunct
33sezeesezeeNOUNNumber=Sing30 umconj
34..PUNCT_6 pesterpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not pesterfuturelikely deyner sistervn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer
2comepresentdaddy wuster wusvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wus=Theme
3speckpresentIyoutree rules
4takeinfinitiveI not said herekeer un um and sezeevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent um=Theme

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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