Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer, sentence 12

I'm fear'd fer ter say a perlite wud 'bout myself, an' I des know I ain't gwine 'roun' flatter'n up deze udder niggers."

Who acts: I, fer ter · What happens: be, say, know, not gwine, flatter'n up · To what, where: fear, perlite wud, roun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVIII. a Temperance Reformer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fer ter), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fear	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	cop
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fer	aux
5	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ter	amod
6	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fear	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wud	det
9	perlite	perlite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wud	compound
10	wud	wud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 wud	punct
12	bout	bout	ADP	_	13 myself	case
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 say	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 an	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fear	conj
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	des	des	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 know	det
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 an	conj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 gwine	nsubj
21	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 gwine	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 gwine	advmod
23	gwine	gwine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 know	ccomp
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 roun	punct
25	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gwine	obj
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 roun	punct
27	flatter'n	flatter'n	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 niggers	amod
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 flatter'n	compound:prt
29	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 udder	compound
30	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 niggers	compound
31	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 roun	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	fear		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	fer ter	a perlite wud	bout myself	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wud=Topic
3	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not gwine		I	roun and flatter'n udder niggers		tree rules
5	flatter'n up	participle				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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