Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 4

"Pear ter me like eve'ybody done year 'bout dat.

Who acts: eve'ybody · What happens: do · To what, where: year bout dat

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 (eve'ybody), 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	_	2 Pear	punct
2	Pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	ter	ter	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Pear	nmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 eve'ybody	case
6	eve'ybody	eve'ybody	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pear	nmod
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 eve'ybody	acl
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dat	compound
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
10	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dat	compound
11	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 done	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Pear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	participle	eve'ybody not said here	year bout dat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality

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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