Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 51
Hit got so dat fokes in de settlement didn't have no peace.
Who acts: Hit, dat fokes · What happens: get, not have · To what, where: peace
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 (Hit, dat fokes), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 have | advmod |
| 4 | dat | dat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fokes | amod |
| 5 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 settlement | case |
| 7 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 settlement | amod |
| 8 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fokes | nmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 got | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 peace | det |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Hit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not have | past · do-support | dat fokes in de settlement | no peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient |
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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