Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 22

De man say ez how dey'd pass us thoo.

Who acts: De man, dey · What happens: say, pass · To what, where: ez, thoo, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (De man, 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 man	compound
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	obj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 pass	advmod
6	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pass	aux
8	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	advcl
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 pass	obj
10	thoo	thoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	De man	ez					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ez=Topic
2	pass	would	dey	thoo	us				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient thoo=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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