Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 2

"Law, honey, ain't I tell you 'bout dat?" replied the old darkey, chuckling slyly. "

Who acts: Law, old darkey · What happens: not tell, reply, chuckle · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Law, old darkey), 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	_	2 Law	punct
2	Law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 honey	punct
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Law	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ai	punct
6	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Law	conj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 tell	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
12	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dat	compound
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replied	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 dat	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 dat	punct
16	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 darkey	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 darkey	amod
19	darkey	darkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replied	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chuckling	punct
21	chuckling	chuckle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 replied	advcl
22	slyly	slyly	ADV	_	21 chuckling	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Law and honey and ai	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	reply speech: ask	past	the old darkey			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	chuckle	gerund	the old darkey not said here		slyly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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