Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 21

I see you comin' 'long 'n I say 'Dey Daddy Ben.'

Who acts: I · What happens: see, say · To what, where: you, Daddy Ben · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj
4	comin	comin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 see	xcomp
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 '	punct
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 comin	advmod
8	'n	'n	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Ben	punct
12	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Daddy	compound
13	Daddy	Daddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Ben	compound
14	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	you				comin property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	I	Daddy Ben					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ben=Topic

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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