Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 9

Ef he run up onter me, I lay I give 'im one twis',' sezee."

Who acts: Ef, I · What happens: run up, lay, give · To what, where: twis sezee

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 (Ef, I), 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	Ef	Ef	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 run	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 run	compound:prt
5	onter	onter	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 run	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	conj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
11	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	ccomp
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 twis	punct
13	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 twis	amod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 twis	nummod
15	twis	twis	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sezee	compound
16	',	',	PUNCT	_	15 twis	punct
17	'	's	PART	_	15 twis	case
18	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 give	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run up	infinitive	Ef		onter me	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	present	I			tree rules
3	give	present	I	twis sezee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sezee=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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