Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 12

"He gwine dish em up," suggested one of the older ones, "like man dish out sugar.

Who acts: dat · What happens: em up, suggest out · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat), 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 em	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 em	nsubj
3	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	compound
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 He	conj
5	em	em	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suggested	parataxis
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 em	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 em	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 em	punct
9	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 suggested	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 ones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ones	det
13	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 ones	amod
14	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dish	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 dish	punct
17	like	like	INTJ	_	19 dish	discourse
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dish	compound
19	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suggested	obl
20	out	out	ADP	_	9 suggested	compound:prt
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suggested	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	em up in a quote	present	dat						tree rules
2	suggest out speech: suggest	past		one of the older ones				man dish obl	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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