Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 19

"Hit's des like I tell you, Brer Ab.

Who acts: des · What happens: tell · To what, where: you · 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 (des), 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 des	punct
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 des	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Hit	case
4	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 I	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 des	nmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Brer	punct
10	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	ccomp
11	Ab	Ab	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Brer	flat
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Hit's des like I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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