Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 21

"You er talkin' 'bout deze yer sparrers, w'ich dey er all head, en 'lev'm un makes one mouffle,*2 I speck," suggested Uncle Remus. "

Who acts: You, un, Uncle Remus · What happens: er, be, speck, suggest · To what, where: talkin, 2 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, un, Uncle Remus), 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	_	3 er	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 er	nsubj
3	er	er	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	talkin	talkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 er	obj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 er	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 er	punct
7	bout	bout	ADP	_	10 sparrers	case
8	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sparrers	compound
9	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sparrers	amod
10	sparrers	sparrer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 er	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dey	punct
12	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	compound
13	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sparrers	conj
14	er	er	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 en	punct
18	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sparrers	conj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 lev	punct
20	lev	lev	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 en	conj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 makes	cop
22	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	nsubj
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 er	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 mouffle	nummod
25	mouffle	mouffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speck	punct
27	*	*	PUNCT	_	28 2	punct
28	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 speck	obl
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 speck	nsubj
30	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 makes	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 suggested	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 suggested	punct
33	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 makes	parataxis
34	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Remus	compound
35	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 suggested	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 er	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	er in a quote	present	You	talkin	bout deze yer sparrers and w'ich dey er all head and en and lev	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	un		make property	tree rules
3	speck in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus	2		tree rules
4	suggest speech: suggest	past	Uncle Remus			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that 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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