Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 20

Nex' mornin' I hear Miss Sally a laughin', an' singin' an' a w'isslin' des like dey want no watermillions raise in Flurridy.

Who acts: I, des, watermillions · What happens: hear, want, raise · To what, where: Nex mornin, Flurridy

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 (I, des, watermillions), 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	Nex	Nex	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mornin	compound
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mornin	punct
3	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 mornin	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Sally	compound
8	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 laughin	det
10	laughin	laughin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
11	',	',	PUNCT	_	14 singin	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 singin	det
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 singin	punct
14	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughin	appos
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 singin	punct
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 des	det
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 des	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 w'isslin	det
19	w'isslin	w'isslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 des	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 w'isslin	case
21	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	nsubj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 dey	case
23	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 des	nmod
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 singin	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 watermillions	det
26	watermillions	watermillion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 raise	nsubj
27	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 want	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Flurridy	case
29	Flurridy	Flurridy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 raise	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	present	I	Nex mornin		tree rules
2	want	present	a w'isslin's des like dey			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	raise	present	no watermillions		Flurridy	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in flurridy=Destination

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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