Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 26

"'Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han', en dat stuck.

Who acts: you, Ef, Brer, han en · What happens: not lemme, knock, say, fotch, dat · To what, where: Ef, agin, you, Brer · 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 (you, Ef, Brer, han en), 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	_	7 lemme	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ef	punct
3	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lemme	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 lemme	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lemme	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 lemme	advmod
7	lemme	lemme	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	loose	loose	ADV	_	7 lemme	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knock	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knock	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 knock	aux
12	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lemme	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 knock	obj
14	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knock	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sez	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 sez	punct
17	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lemme	conj
18	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sez	obj
19	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Brer	flat
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sezee	punct
21	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Brer	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fotch	punct
23	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wid	compound
24	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dat	compound
25	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fotch	compound
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fotch	nsubj
27	fotch	fotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sez	obl
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 fotch	punct
29	er	er	ADP	_	31 wipe	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wipe	det
31	wipe	wipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sez	obl
32	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 han	amod
33	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	32 wid	flat:foreign
34	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 han	compound
35	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 en	compound
36	',	',	PART	_	35 han	dep
37	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dat	nsubj
38	dat	dat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sez	advcl
39	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dat	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lemme	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not lemme in a quote	present · do-support	you	Ef		loose property	tree rules
2	knock in a quote	future	Ef	agin	you		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination agin=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you not said here	Brer		er a wipe	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brer=Topic
4	fotch in a quote		Brer				tree rules
5	dat in a quote	past	han en			stuck 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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