Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. the Wonderful Tar Baby Story, sentence 42

Some say Judge B'ar come 'long en loosed 'im--some say he didn't.

Who acts: Some, long en, en · What happens: say, come, loose, not do · To what, where: Judge, im · 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 (Some, long en, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
4	B'ar	B'ar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Judge	flat
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 loosed	punct
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 en	amod
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loosed	nsubj
9	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 im	punct
11	im	im	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loosed	obl
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 did	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Some	Judge	tree rules
2	come	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	loose	past	long en	im	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	present	some		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not do	past	en		vn act-114-1 «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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