Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 50
But dish yere nigger w'at I'm tellin' you 'bout, he kyo'd his brer de ve'y fus pass he made at him.
Who acts: nigger w'at, W'at · What happens: be, make · To what, where: tellin, ve'y fus pass
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nigger w'at, W'at), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 tellin | cc |
| 2 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 yere | compound |
| 3 | yere | yere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nigger | compound |
| 4 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 w'at | compound |
| 5 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tellin | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tellin | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tellin | cop |
| 8 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 tellin | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tellin | conj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 bout | punct |
| 12 | bout | bout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 you | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 'd | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 'd | nsubj |
| 15 | kyo | kyo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 'd | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bout | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brer | brer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 'd | obj |
| 19 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 brer | flat:foreign |
| 20 | ve'y | ve'y | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pass | amod |
| 21 | fus | fus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pass | amod |
| 22 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brer | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pass | acl:relcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tellin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | nigger w'at | tellin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | W'at | ve'y fus pass not said here | at kyo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Product |
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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