Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 1

"DEY tells me you done jine de chu'ch," said Uncle Remus to Pegleg Charley.

Who acts: DEY, Pegleg, Uncle Remus · What happens: tell, do, say · To what, where: Uncle Remus, jine, Pegleg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DEY, Pegleg, Uncle Remus), 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	_	3 tells	punct
2	DEY	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tells	xcomp
7	jine	jine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	obj
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 chu'ch	compound
9	chu'ch	chu'ch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jine	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Remus	compound
14	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Pegleg	case
16	Pegleg	Pegleg	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
17	Charley	Charley	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pegleg	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	DEY		Uncle Remus = remus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen, in a quote	participle	Pegleg	jine and de chu'ch		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jine=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus		Pegleg	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pegleg=Recipient clause=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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