Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 19

Ef you don't take off dat hat en tell me howdy, I'm gwine ter bus' you wide open,' sezee.

Who acts: Ef, I · What happens: not take off, tell, be · To what, where: hat en, howdy, me · 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 (Ef, I), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hat	compound
8	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 en	compound
9	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	howdy	howdy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gwine	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 gwine	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gwine	cop
16	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 open	advcl
17	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bus	compound
18	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gwine	conj
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 gwine	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 open	nsubj
21	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 open	advmod
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 take	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sezee	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 sezee	punct
25	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 open	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not take off	present · do-support	Ef	hat en			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent en=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Ef not said here	howdy	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient howdy=Topic
3	is	present	I			gwine property	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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