Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 26

"Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Rastus, an' I hatter git Mars John fer to go inter my bon's fer me.

Who acts: des, wunner · What happens: tell, hatter, go · To what, where: you, git John fer, inter fer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (des, wunner), 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	_	4 des	punct
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 des	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Hit	case
4	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 I	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 des	nmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Brer	punct
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	ccomp
11	Rastus	Rastus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 an	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Brer	conj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 hatter	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hatter	nsubj
16	hatter	hatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 an	conj
17	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fer	compound
18	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 John	compound
19	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 fer	compound
20	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hatter	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hatter	advcl
23	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 fer	amod
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bon	nmod:poss
25	bon	bon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fer	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 bon	case
27	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fer	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Hit's des like I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	hatter in a quote	present	wunner	git John fer		tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive	wunner not said here	my bon's inter fer		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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