Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 64

"'Well, dey ain't p'intin' yo' way, sez I, 'an', fuddermo', ef you don't bodder longer dem hogs dey ain't gwineter clime outer dat pen an' 'tack you, nudder,'" sez I.

Who acts: dey ai, you, ai · What happens: say, not bodder, pen, tack · To what, where: I, hogs dey, I. · 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 (dey ai, you, ai), 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	_	14 sez	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 ai	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 ai	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ai	compound
6	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sez	nsubj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 p'intin	advmod
8	p'intin	p'intin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ai	conj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 yo	punct
10	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 p'intin	appos
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 yo	punct
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yo	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ai	punct
14	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 sez	csubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 sez	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ef	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 ef	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fuddermo	det
19	',	',	PUNCT	_	18 an	punct
20	fuddermo	fuddermo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ef	compound
21	',	',	PART	_	20 fuddermo	dep
22	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sez	obl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 bodder	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bodder	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 bodder	advmod
26	bodder	bodder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ef	acl:relcl
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 bodder	advmod
28	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hogs	compound
29	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dey	compound
30	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bodder	obj
31	ai	ai	X	Foreign=Yes	37 pen	nsubj
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 gwineter	advmod
33	gwineter	gwinet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 pen	nsubj
34	clime	clime	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pen	nsubj
35	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pen	amod
36	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pen	compound
37	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dey	acl:relcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tack	det
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 tack	punct
40	'	's	PART	_	39 '	case
41	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pen	appos
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 tack	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 nudder	punct
44	nudder	nudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tack	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sez	punct
48	sez	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
49	I.	I.	X	Foreign=Yes	48 sez	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	dey ai and p'intin	I	fuddermo ef obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic
2	not bodder in a quote	present · do-support	you	hogs dey	long property	tree rules
3	pen in a quote		ai	hogs dey not said here		tree rules
4	tack in a quote		you			tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present		I.		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i.=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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