Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 21

I wuz comm' 'cross de bridge des now, an' Brer John Henry seed me wid de bag slung onter my back, an' de jug in it, an' he ups an' sez, sezee:

Who acts: I, me, git, ' · What happens: wuz, wi, sling, up, say · To what, where: cross, de bag, ups · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, git, '), 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 wuz	nsubj
2	wuz	wuz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	comm	comm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	nmod:poss
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 comm	punct
5	'	's	PART	_	3 comm	case
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wuz	obj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	8 bridge	compound
8	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	conj
9	des	des	X	_	8 bridge	flat:foreign
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 wuz	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seed	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 seed	det
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 Brer	punct
14	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 seed	compound
15	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Brer	appos
16	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 John	flat
17	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wuz	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wid	nsubj
19	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seed	acl:relcl
20	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bag	amod
21	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wid	obj
22	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wid	xcomp
23	onter	onter	ADP	_	25 back	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 back	nmod:poss
25	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slung	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jug	punct
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 jug	det
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	30 jug	punct
29	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jug	compound
30	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seed	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 jug	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ups	punct
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ups	det
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 ups	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 ups	nsubj
37	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seed	conj
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 '	det
39	'	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sez	nsubj
40	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 ups	acl:relcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sezee	punct
42	sezee	sezee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seed	conj
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 wuz	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wuz	present	I	comm's cross and de bridge	now		tree rules
2	wi	past	me	de bag			tree rules
3	sling	participle	me not said here			onter my back	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	up		git				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	a '	a ups not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent up=Topic

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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