Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 62

"Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-eight, Christ done made dat crooked way straight-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd, forty-en-nine, Christ done turn dat water inter wine-- En I don't wanter stay here no longer."

Who acts: eighteen hunder, En, wanter, Christ, little boy · What happens: do, make, not wanter, stay, turn · To what, where: made dat crooked way, dat water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eighteen hunder, En, wanter, Christ), 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	_	5 hunder	punct
2	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hunder	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Hit	case
4	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hunder	nummod
5	hunder	hunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	nsubj
6	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 hunder	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 en	punct
8	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 en	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 forty	punct
10	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunder	conj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 eight	punct
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 en	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hunder	punct
14	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 done	nsubj
15	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 way	amod
17	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
18	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	obj
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 done	advmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 wanter	punct
22	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wanter	nsubj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 wanter	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wanter	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 wanter	advmod
26	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	obl
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanter	acl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stay	advmod
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 stay	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hunder	punct
32	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 hunder	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Hit	case
34	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hunder	nummod
35	hunder	hunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 done	parataxis
36	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	35 hunder	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 en	punct
38	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 en	nummod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 en	punct
40	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hunder	conj
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 nine	punct
42	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 en	appos
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 done	punct
44	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 done	nsubj
45	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hunder	parataxis
46	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 done	ccomp
47	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 water	compound
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 turn	obj
49	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 wine	amod
50	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 turn	obj
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 En	punct
52	En	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wine	conj
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 wanter	nsubj
54	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 wanter	aux
55	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 wanter	advmod
56	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 En	conj
57	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 turn	conj
58	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	57 stay	advmod
59	no	no	ADV	_	60 longer	advmod
60	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	57 stay	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 turn	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 hunder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	Hit's eighteen hunder and forty en	made dat crooked way		straight property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
2	make in a quote	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	not wanter in a quote	present · do-support	En				tree rules
4	stay in a quote	infinitive	wanter not said here		here	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do in a quote	past	Christ				tree rules
6	turn in a quote	infinitive	Christ not said here	dat water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent water=Theme wine=Result
7	not wanter in a quote	present · do-support	the little boy = boy				tree rules
8	stay in a quote	infinitive	Christ not said here		here	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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