Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 6

"'Pears unter me dat I come mighty nigh gittin' some news bout dat size, an' dat's w'at I'm a huntin' fer.

Who acts: policeman · What happens: come, be · To what, where: mighty gittin, fer

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 (policeman), 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 unter	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Pears	punct
3	Pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unter	nsubj
4	unter	unt	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 unter	obl
6	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unter	advcl
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gittin	amod
10	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	11 gittin	advmod
11	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 gittin	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 size	det
14	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bout	compound
15	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 size	compound
16	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 size	compound
17	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 w'at	punct
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 w'at	det
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 w'at	punct
21	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 w'at	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 dat	case
23	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 size	appos
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 fer	nsubj
25	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fer	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 huntin	det
27	huntin	huntin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fer	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 huntin	case
29	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 w'at	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	the policeman = policeman	mighty gittin				some bout dat size obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gittin=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	the policeman = policeman	a huntin's fer					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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