Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 13

"Hol' on dar, Uncle Remus; you ain't tell me 'bout Jim," exclaimed the Jonesboro negro.

Who acts: you, Jonesboro negro · What happens: not tell, exclaim · To what, where: Jonesboro negro · 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 (you, Jonesboro negro), 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 Hol	punct
2	Hol	Hol	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dar	compound
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hol	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 dar	case
5	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Remus	punct
7	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Remus	compound
8	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dar	appos
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dar	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
16	bout	bout	ADP	_	17 Jim	case
17	Jim	Jim	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 negro	det
22	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 negro	compound
23	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exclaimed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote		you		the Jonesboro negro = negro			bout Jim	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the Jonesboro negro						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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