Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 40

"Dat's all de fur de tale goes," replied the old man. "

Who acts: de fur, old man · What happens: go, reply · 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 (de fur, old man), 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	_	9 goes	punct
2	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dat	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fur	det
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 fur	compound
6	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 fur	flat:foreign
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fur	conj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	all de fur and tale						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	past	the old man						vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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