Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 25
"Well, lemme tell you dis, now, 'fo' you go enny fudder.
Who acts: lemme, you · What happens: tell, dis, go · To what, where: enny · 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 (lemme, 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | lemme | lemme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dis | nsubj |
| 7 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tell | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fo | punct |
| 12 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fo | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | enny | enny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obj |
| 17 | fudder | fudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | lemme | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dis in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | enny | fudder obl:unmarked | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enny=Theme |
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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