Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 93

Look like ter me dey wuz fixin' fer a weddin'.

Who acts: you · What happens: look · To what, where: fer

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 (you), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 me	case
3	ter	ter	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obl
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixin	compound
6	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fixin	compound
7	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fer	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 fixin	punct
9	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Look	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weddin	det
11	weddin	weddin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fer	nsubj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 weddin	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	fer				like me	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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