Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 14

"Cum down ter dat, Brer Ab," said Uncle Remus, wiping his spectacles carefully, and readjusting them--"cum down ter dat, an' dey ain't nuthin' dat ain't cu'us.

Who acts: Cum ter dat · What happens: say, wipe, readjust down · To what, where: spectacles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cum ter dat), 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 dat	punct
2	Cum	cum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	compound
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 Cum	compound:prt
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dat	compound
5	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Brer	punct
7	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dat	appos
8	Ab	Ab	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Brer	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dat	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dat	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Remus	compound
13	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wiping	punct
15	wiping	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 said	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spectacles	nmod:poss
17	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wiping	obj
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 wiping	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 readjusting	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 readjusting	cc
21	readjusting	readjust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 readjusting	obj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 cum	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 cum	punct
25	cum	cum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 readjusting	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	21 readjusting	compound:prt
27	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dat	compound
28	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 readjusting	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ai	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 ai	det
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	33 ai	punct
32	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ai	compound
33	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 readjusting	parataxis
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 nuthin	advmod
35	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ai	conj
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 nuthin	punct
37	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ai	compound
38	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nuthin	conj
39	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 cu'us	advmod
40	cu'us	cu'us	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ai	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cum ter dat			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wipe	gerund	Cum ter dat not said here	Remus's spectacles	carefully property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source
3	readjust down	gerund	Cum ter dat not said here	spectacles = spectacle		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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