Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 25

Hit bleedzd ter be dat away."

Who acts: you · What happens: hit, dat away · To what, where: bleedzd ter

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 (you), 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	bleedzd	bleedzd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ter	amod
3	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dat	aux:pass
5	dat	dat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hit	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 dat	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	bleedzd ter					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ter=Co-Theme
2	dat away	infinitive · passive						away property	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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