Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XI. the Emigrants, sentence 8

"We er gwine down in de naberhoods er Tallypoosy, an we ain't makin' no fuss 'bout it, nudder."

Who acts: We · What happens: gwine down, not be · To what, where: de naberhoods, makin

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 (We), 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	_	4 gwine	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gwine	nsubj
3	er	er	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gwine	aux
4	gwine	gwine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 gwine	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 naberhoods	case
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 naberhoods	compound
8	naberhoods	naberhood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gwine	obl
9	er	er	ADP	_	10 Tallypoosy	case
10	Tallypoosy	Tallypoosy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 naberhoods	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 makin	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 makin	det
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 makin	nsubj
14	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 makin	cop
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 makin	advmod
16	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 naberhoods	conj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 makin	punct
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 fuss	det
19	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makin	appos
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 fuss	punct
21	bout	bout	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fuss	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nudder	punct
24	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 naberhoods	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gwine	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gwine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gwine down in a quote		We			de naberhoods er Tallypoosy and a makin and nudder			tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present	we	a makin					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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