Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 25

Dey tells me 'roun' town dat chilluns don't git hurted wid de meezles, w'ich ef dey don't I wanter be a baby de nex' time dey hits dis place.

Who acts: Dey, chilluns, I, nex time dey · What happens: tell, not git, hurte, not be, hit · To what, where: roun town, me, hurted wid de meezles, baby, dis place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dey, chilluns, I, nex time dey), 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	Dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 roun	punct
5	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	compound
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 roun	punct
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
8	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	12 git	mark
9	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 git	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 git	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 git	advmod
12	git	git	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tells	advcl
13	hurted	hurte	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 meezles	amod
14	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meezles	amod
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 meezles	compound
16	meezles	meezle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 git	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dey	punct
18	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ef	compound
19	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dey	compound
20	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meezles	conj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 baby	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 baby	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 baby	nsubj
24	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 baby	nsubj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 baby	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 baby	det
27	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meezles	nmod
28	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	29 nex	compound
29	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dey	compound
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 nex	punct
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dey	compound
32	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hits	nsubj
33	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 baby	parataxis
34	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 place	compound
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hits	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Dey	roun town	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient town=Topic
2	not git	present · do-support	chilluns	hurted wid de meezles and ef dey		tree rules
3	hurte	participle				tree rules
4	not is a	present · do-support	I	a baby		tree rules
5	hit	present	nex time dey	dis place		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Co-Theme

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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