Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 37

"'Dat's des w'at I wuz gwineter tell you 'bout; sez Brer Possum, sezee. '

Who acts: fer ter, des w'at · What happens: wuz, tell, sez · To what, where: gwineter, bout, you, Brer · 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 (fer ter, des w'at), 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	_	10 tell	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 w'at	punct
3	Dat	Dat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 w'at	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Dat	case
5	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 w'at	compound
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 wuz	nsubj
8	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 w'at	acl:relcl
9	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wuz	obj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
13	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sez	punct
15	sez	sez	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	conj
16	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sez	obj
17	Possum	Possum	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sezee	punct
19	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Brer	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wuz in a quote	present	fer ter = ter	gwineter		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Dat's des w'at	bout	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bout=Topic
3	sez in a quote	infinitive	Dat's des w'at not said here	Brer		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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