Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 12

Dey tells me dish yer train goes a callyhootin'."

Who acts: Dey, train · What happens: tell, go · To what, where: dish, me, callyhootin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, train), 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	Dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 train	nmod:poss
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 callyhootin	det
9	callyhootin	callyhootin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 callyhootin	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Dey	dish	me				tree rules
2	go	present	yer's train	a callyhootin					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location callyhootin=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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