Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 59
I bound' dey don't fergit de ole nigger, nudder.
Who acts: I, dey · What happens: bound, not fergit · To what, where: ole nigger
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dey), 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 | 2 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
| 4 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fergit | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fergit | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fergit | advmod |
| 7 | fergit | fergit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bound | ccomp |
| 8 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nigger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nigger | amod |
| 10 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fergit | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nudder | punct |
| 12 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nigger | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not fergit | present · do-support | dey | de's ole nigger and nudder | 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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