Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 1

"W'AT'S dis yer I see, great big niggers gwine 'lopin' 'roun' town wid cakes 'n pies fer ter sell?" asked Uncle Remus recently, in his most scornful tone.

Who acts: Uncle Remus, pies, dis · What happens: see, sell, ask, intonate · To what, where: scornful tone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Remus, pies, dis), 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	_	5 yer	punct
2	W'AT	W'AT	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dis	nmod:poss
3	'S	's	PART	_	2 W'AT	case
4	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yer	nsubj
5	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 yer	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 niggers	amod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 niggers	amod
11	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 asked	nsubj
12	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	nsubj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 lopin	punct
14	lopin	lopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 town	compound
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 lopin	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 roun	punct
17	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 town	compound
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 roun	punct
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gwine	conj
20	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cakes	amod
21	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pies	nmod:poss
22	'n	'n	PART	_	21 cakes	case
23	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 town	appos
24	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 ter	amod
25	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sell	compound
26	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pies	acl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 sell	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 sell	punct
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	parataxis
30	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Remus	compound
31	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obj
32	recently	recently	ADV	_	29 asked	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 tone	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 tone	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tone	nmod:poss
36	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	37 scornful	advmod
37	scornful	scornful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tone	amod
38	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 yer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sell in a quote	infinitive	wid cakes's pies not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	Uncle Remus	dis's scornful tone	recently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	intonate		dis			nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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