Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 6

"Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus, dryly. "'

Who acts: Hit, Uncle Remus · What happens: be, speck, say · To what, where: de unseasonableness er · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, 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	_	6 er	punct
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 er	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 er	cop
4	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 er	amod
5	unseasonableness	unseasonableness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 er	compound
6	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	de	de	ADP	_	8 hour	case
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 er	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speck	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 speck	nsubj
11	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speck	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 speck	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 er	conj
15	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Remus	compound
16	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dryly	punct
18	dryly	dryly	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 er	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 er	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 er	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Hit	de unseasonableness er	hour		tree rules
2	speck in a quote	present	Uncle Remus = remus				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Uncle Remus			dryly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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