Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 24

Dey er mighty biggity, dem house niggers is, but I notices dat dey don't let nuthin' pass.

Who acts: Dey · What happens: be, not let · To what, where: nuthin pass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 notices	nsubj
2	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 mighty	advmod
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 biggity	amod
4	biggity	biggity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dey	list
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 niggers	punct
6	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 niggers	compound
8	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dey	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 notices	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 notices	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 notices	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 notices	nsubj
13	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	dat	that	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dey	det
15	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 notices	obj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 notices	ccomp
19	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	compound
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 nuthin	punct
21	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 let	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 notices	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dey and house niggers					notice property	tree rules
2	not let	present · do-support		nuthin pass					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme

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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