Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 17

En den, bless grashus! w'en de fokes seed it, dey make a break fer de pon', en dem w'at wuz de soopless, dey got in fus' en dey come out w'ite; en dem w'at wuz de nex' soopless, dey got in nex', en dey come out merlatters; en dey wuz sech a crowd un um dat dey mighty nigh use de water up, w'ich w'en dem yuthers come long, de morest dey could do wuz ter paddle about wid der foots en dabble in it wid der han's.

Who acts: grashus, fokes seed, de pon, dey, en, un um · What happens: seed, make, wuz, get, come out, use up · To what, where: break fer, fus, merlatters, nex en dey, de water, ter paddle

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 (grashus, fokes seed, de pon, 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	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 den	compound
2	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 w'en	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grashus	punct
4	bless	bless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grashus	amod
5	grashus	grashus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 den	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 den	punct
7	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fokes	compound
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 w'en	flat:foreign
9	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seed	compound
10	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seed	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dey	punct
13	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seed	conj
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fer	det
16	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fer	compound
17	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	19 pon	compound
19	pon	pon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wuz	nsubj
20	',	',	PART	_	19 pon	dep
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wuz	nsubj
22	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wuz	compound
23	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wuz	compound
24	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fer	acl:relcl
25	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 wuz	conj
26	soopless	soopless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 de	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 got	punct
28	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 got	nsubj
29	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wuz	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 fus	case
31	fus	fus	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	34 dey	punct
33	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dey	compound
34	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fus	conj
35	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 got	conj
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	vocative
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 wuz	punct
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	nsubj
40	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	compound
41	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	compound
42	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
43	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	44 nex	compound
44	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wuz	appos
45	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 nex	punct
46	soopless	soopless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wuz	amod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 got	punct
48	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 got	nsubj
49	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 wuz	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	54 dey	case
51	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dey	compound
52	',	',	PART	_	51 nex	dep
53	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dey	compound
54	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 come	obl
55	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 got	parataxis
56	out	out	ADV	_	55 come	advmod
57	merlatters	merlatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 come	obl:unmarked
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 sech	punct
59	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 dey	compound
60	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 sech	compound
61	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 sech	compound
62	sech	sech	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 come	nsubj
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 um	det
64	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 un	compound
65	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 um	compound
66	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 use	nsubj
67	dat	dat	ADP	_	68 dey	case
68	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 um	nmod
69	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 use	nsubj
70	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	71 use	advmod
71	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 sech	acl:relcl
72	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	73 water	compound
73	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 use	obj
74	up	up	ADP	_	71 use	compound:prt
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	76 w'ich	punct
76	w'ich	w'ich	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 yuthers	compound
77	w'en	w'en	X	_	78 dem	compound
78	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 yuthers	compound
79	yuthers	yuther	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 come	nsubj
80	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 make	parataxis
81	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	80 come	advmod
82	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 do	punct
83	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	85 dey	compound
84	morest	more	ADJ	Degree=Sup	85 dey	amod
85	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 do	nsubj
86	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	87 do	aux
87	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	96 dabble	advcl
88	wuz	wuz	X	Foreign=Yes	90 paddle	dep
89	ter	t	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	90 paddle	amod
90	paddle	paddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 do	obj
91	about	about	ADP	_	93 der	case
92	wid	wid	NOUN	Number=Sing	93 der	compound
93	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	90 paddle	nmod
94	foots	foot	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	96 dabble	cop
95	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	96 dabble	nsubj
96	dabble	dabble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	80 come	conj
97	in	in	SCONJ	_	99 wid	mark
98	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	99 wid	nsubj
99	wid	wi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	96 dabble	ccomp
100	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	101 han	amod
101	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	99 wid	obj
102	's	's	PART	_	101 han	case
103	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seed		grashus				tree rules
2	make	present	fokes seed and dey	a break fer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fer=Product
3	wuz		de pon	a break fer not said here			tree rules
4	get	past	dey				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	come out	present	dey not said here		fus and en dey	w'ite vocative; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	wuz		en				tree rules
7	get	past	dey				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	come out	present		merlatters	nex en dey	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
9	use up	present	a un um dat dey	de water		nigh property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
10	come	present	dey wuz sech			long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	do	could	de morest dey	ter paddle		about wid der	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Eventuality
12	is	present	en			dabble property	tree rules
13	wi	past	dey	der han			tree rules

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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