Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 20
"De Injun en de Chinee got ter be 'counted 'long er de merlatter.
Who acts: Injun en · What happens: get, count, be · To what, where: ter counted long er
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 (Injun en), 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Injun | compound |
| 3 | Injun | Injun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 en | compound |
| 4 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 5 | de | de | ADP | _ | 6 Chinee | case |
| 6 | Chinee | Chinee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 en | nmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 er | amod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 er | cop |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 counted | punct |
| 11 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 er | amod |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 counted | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 er | amod |
| 14 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 merlatter | compound |
| 16 | merlatter | merlatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 er | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Injun en de Chinee | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | count in a quote | participle | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | ter counted long er and de merlatter | 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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