Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 30

"He bleedzed ter be dead, boss.

Who acts: riz, ter · What happens: bleedz, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riz, ter), 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	_	3 bleedzed	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bleedzed	nsubj
3	bleedzed	bleedz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dead	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bleedzed	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dead	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bleedzed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleedz in a quote	past	riz						tree rules
2	is in a quote	infinitive	ter					dead property	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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