Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 21

But somebody better pen dis yer nigger boy up w'en I'm on de town--I kin tell you dat."

Who acts: nigger boy, I · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: de town, dat, you · 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 (nigger boy, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 dis	cc
2	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 dis	nsubj
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 somebody	amod
4	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dis	compound
5	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
7	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	compound
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 town	nsubj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 boy	compound:prt
10	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 town	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 town	cop
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 town	compound
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dis	parataxis
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	kin	kin	ADV	_	19 tell	advmod
19	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 town	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 town	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 dis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	yer's nigger boy and w'en			de town			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	I	dat	you			kin property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dat=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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