Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 78

"Den I say, sez I: 'How long you bin knowin' me, Mars Jeems?' sez I.

Who acts: I, you, Mars · What happens: say, sez, bin · To what, where: Den, knowin, I. · 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 (I, you, Mars), 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	_	2 Den	punct
2	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sez	punct
6	sez	sez	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sez	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 bin	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 bin	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 long	advmod
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bin	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bin	nsubj
13	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	conj
14	knowin	knowin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bin	obj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 knowin	punct
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bin	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Mars	punct
18	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sez	nsubj
19	Jeems	Jeems	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mars	flat
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 Mars	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Mars	punct
22	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
23	I.	I.	X	Foreign=Yes	22 sez	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	present	I	Den		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sez in a quote	present	I			tree rules
3	bin in a quote	present	you	knowin	long property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mars	I.		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=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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