Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 21

Lemme tell you dis, Brer Ab: don't you let deze sines onsettle you.

Who acts: Lemme, you, deze sines · What happens: tell, not let, onsettle · To what, where: dis, 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 (Lemme, you, deze sines), 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	Lemme	Lemme	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Brer	punct
6	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dis	appos
7	Ab	Ab	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Brer	flat
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	parataxis
13	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sines	compound
14	sines	sine	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 onsettle	nsubj
15	onsettle	onsettle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 let	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 onsettle	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Lemme	dis	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dis=Topic
2	not let	infinitive · do-support	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	onsettle	present	deze sines	you		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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