Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 9

Dey've been a goin' back on me too rapidly here lately, an' now I'm a goin' back on dem."

Who acts: Dey, I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: back, dem

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, 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 back	nsubj
2	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dey	parataxis
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 back	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 back	det
5	goin	goin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 goin	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 back	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
11	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 back	advmod
13	lately	lately	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 back	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 back	det
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 back	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 back	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 back	nsubj
19	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 back	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 goin	det
21	goin	goin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 goin	case
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 dem	case
25	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 back	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 back	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle	Dey	goin's back and a goin's back	here		on me	tree rules
3	is a	present	I	a goin's back	dem	now		tree rules

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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