Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 1

"LOOK yer, boy," said Uncle Remus yesterday, Stopping near the railroad crossing on Whitehall Street, and gazing ferociously at a small colored youth; "look yer, boy, Ill lay you out flat ef you come flingin' yo' watermillion rimes under my foot--you watch ef I don't.

Who acts: Uncle, Ill, you · What happens: look, say, stop, gaze, lie out, come · To what, where: yer, railroad crossing, you, flat ef, ef · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, Ill, you), 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	_	2 LOOK	punct
2	LOOK	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 LOOK	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 LOOK	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 LOOK	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 LOOK	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Uncle	flat
11	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Uncle	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Stopping	punct
13	Stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	near	near	ADP	_	17 crossing	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crossing	det
16	railroad	railroad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crossing	compound
17	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Stopping	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 Street	case
19	Whitehall	Whitehall	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Street	compound
20	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 crossing	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gazing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gazing	cc
23	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 Stopping	conj
24	ferociously	ferociously	ADV	_	23 gazing	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 youth	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 youth	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 youth	amod
28	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 youth	amod
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gazing	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 look	punct
32	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
33	yer	y	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 look	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 boy	punct
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 look	vocative
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lay	punct
37	Ill	ill	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 lay	nsubj
38	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 come	nsubj
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 lay	obj
40	out	out	ADP	_	38 lay	compound:prt
41	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 ef	amod
42	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obl
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 come	nsubj
44	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
45	flingin	flingin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	obj
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 yo	punct
47	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 flingin	conj
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	50 rimes	punct
49	watermillion	watermillion	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rimes	compound
50	rimes	rime	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 yo	appos
51	under	under	ADP	_	53 foot	case
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 foot	nmod:poss
53	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 rimes	nmod
54	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 watch	punct
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 watch	nsubj
56	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 come	parataxis
57	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 watch	obj
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 do	nsubj
59	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 watch	conj
60	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 do	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive		yer		boy vocative	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yer=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	Uncle yesterday				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	gerund	Uncle yesterday not said here		the railroad crossing on Whitehall Street		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	gaze	gerund	Uncle yesterday not said here			at a small colored youth; ferociously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at youth=Theme
5	look in a quote	infinitive				boy vocative; y property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	lie out in a quote	past	Ill	you			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
7	come in a quote	present		flat ef			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flingin=Theme
8	watch in a quote	present	you	ef			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ef=Theme
9	not do in a quote	present	Uncle yesterday = uncle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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