Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 34

I know'd you'd git away wid Mr. Dog ef I didn't, en I des lay dar watchin' you shake him, waitin' fer ter put in w'en de time come,' sezee.

Who acts: I, you, waitin · What happens: know, git away, not do, lay, shake, put · To what, where: Dog ef, dar watchin, en, fer ter, w'en, sezee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, waitin), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 git	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 git	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 git	aux
6	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 git	advmod
8	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 git	amod
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ef	nmod:desc
10	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ef	compound
11	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wid	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ef	acl:relcl
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 did	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 en	punct
16	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ef	conj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
18	des	des	X	Foreign=Yes	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 en	parataxis
20	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 watchin	amod
21	watchin	watchin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obj
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 watchin	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 shake	nsubj
24	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shake	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waitin	punct
27	waitin	waitin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	nsubj
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 ter	punct
29	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ter	compound
30	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waitin	appos
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 ter	acl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 w'en	case
33	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	35 time	compound
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 w'en	nmod:unmarked
36	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 shake	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sezee	punct
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 sezee	punct
39	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	git away	would	you			away property	tree rules
3	not do	past	I	Dog ef Mr. and en not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Eventuality
4	lay	present	I	dar watchin			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watchin=Result
5	shake	present	you	en			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	put	participle		fer ter not said here	w'en de time		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in w'en=Destination
7	come	infinitive	waitin	sezee			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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