Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 16

"'You er stuck up, dat's w'at you is,' says Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'en I'm gwine ter kyore you, dat's w'at I'm a gwine ter do,' sezee.

Who acts: Brer, ter, w'at · What happens: be, say, kyore, do, ' · To what, where: You, gwine ter, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brer, ter, w'at), 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	_	15 says	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
3	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	er	er	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 says	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stuck	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 w'at	punct
8	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 w'at	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 dat	case
10	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	obj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
17	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sezee	punct
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 en	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 en	punct
22	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	ccomp
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gwine	nsubj
24	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 gwine	cop
25	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 en	nmod
26	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kyore	nsubj
27	kyore	kyore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gwine	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 kyore	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 w'at	punct
30	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 w'at	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 dat	case
32	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	nsubj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ter	nsubj
34	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 ter	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ter	det
36	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 ter	amod
37	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 w'at	acl:relcl
38	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 gwine	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 '	punct
40	'	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 says	conj
41	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 '	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · passive		You	dat's w'at obl; stick property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Brer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	Brer		gwine property	tree rules
4	kyore in a quote	past	ter	you		tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	Brer	a gwine ter		tree rules
6	do in a quote	present	dat's w'at			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	' in a quote	infinitive	Brer not said here	sezee		tree rules

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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