Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 24

Den I say to myse'f, 'I lay I fetch you ef you gimme anudder invite.'

Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, lay, fetch, gimme · To what, where: Den, myse'f, ef, you, anudder invite · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	Den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 myse'f	case
5	myse'f	myse'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fetch	nsubj
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fetch	obj
13	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetch	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 gimme	nsubj
15	gimme	gimme	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ef	acl:relcl
16	anudder	anudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 invite	compound
17	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gimme	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I	Den	myse'f	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myse'f=Recipient
2	lay	present	I			tree rules
3	fetch	present	I	ef	you	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary ef=Theme
4	gimme	present	you	anudder invite		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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