Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 19

"An' you speck ter retch dar safe an soun'?

Who acts: you · What happens: speck, retch · To what, where: An, dar

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XI. the Emigrants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 speck	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 speck	obl
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 An	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 speck	nsubj
5	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ter	ter	PART	_	7 retch	mark
7	retch	retch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speck	xcomp
8	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retch	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 soun	amod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 soun	det
11	soun	soun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 retch	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 soun	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 speck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speck in a quote	present	you	An					tree rules
2	retch in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	dar					tree rules

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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