Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 15

In dem times we 'uz all un us black; we 'uz all niggers tergedder, en 'cordin' ter all de 'counts w'at I years fokes 'uz gittin' 'long 'bout ez well in dem days ez dey is now.

Who acts: niggers tergedder, I · What happens: count, bout, be · To what, where: w'at

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (niggers tergedder, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 times	compound
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 black	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 black	nsubj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 uz	punct
6	uz	uz	X	Foreign=Yes	4 we	dep
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 we	det
8	un	un	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 us	reparandum
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 we	conj
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 uz	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 uz	nsubj
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 uz	punct
14	uz	uz	X	_	27 counts	dep
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 tergedder	det
16	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tergedder	compound
17	tergedder	tergedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 counts	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 en	punct
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tergedder	conj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 cordin	punct
21	cordin	cordin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 en	appos
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 cordin	punct
23	ter	ter	ADP	_	25 de	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 de	det
25	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tergedder	nmod
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 de	punct
27	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 black	parataxis
28	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 counts	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 bout	nsubj
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bout	nsubj
31	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gittin	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 fokes	case
33	uz	uz	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gittin	compound
34	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bout	nsubj
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 long	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 long	punct
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bout	amod
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 long	punct
39	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 black	parataxis
40	ez	ez	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	39 bout	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 ez	fixed
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 days	case
43	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 days	compound
44	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bout	nmod
45	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 dey	amod
46	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 days	conj
47	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 black	conj
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 is	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	count	present	all niggers tergedder ter all de and en	w'at		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Theme
2	bout		I		day	tree rules
3	be	present			now	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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