Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 4

"Tooby sho de pa'm er my han's w'ite, honey," he quietly remarked, "en, w'en it come ter dat, dey wuz a time w'en all de w'ite folks 'uz black--blacker dan me, kaze I done bin yer so long dat I bin sorter bleach out."

Who acts: Tooby, en · What happens: be, remark, come, w'en, do, bin · To what, where: dat, time, kaze, yer, sorter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tooby, 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	_	2 Tooby	punct
2	Tooby	Tooby	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 w'ite	nsubj
3	sho	sho	X	_	5 pa	compound
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 sho	flat:foreign
5	pa	pa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tooby	appos
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 w'ite	cop
7	er	er	ADP	_	11 w'ite	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 han	nmod:poss
9	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 w'ite	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 han	case
11	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 honey	punct
13	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 w'ite	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remarked	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 remarked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remarked	nsubj
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 remarked	advmod
18	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 w'ite	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 en	punct
21	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 w'en	punct
23	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 en	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 remarked	parataxis
26	ter	ter	ADV	_	27 dat	advmod
27	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wuz	punct
29	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wuz	compound
30	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dat	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wuz	appos
33	w'en	w'en	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 time	acl
34	all	all	ADV	_	40 black	advmod
35	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	40 black	nsubj
36	w'ite	w'ite	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 folks	compound
37	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 uz	nmod:poss
38	'	's	PART	_	37 folks	case
39	uz	uz	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 black	nsubj
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 w'en	advcl
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 blacker	punct
42	blacker	black	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 black	conj
43	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	42 blacker	conj
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 dan	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 kaze	punct
46	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dat	conj
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 done	nsubj
48	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 kaze	acl:relcl
49	bin	bin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 done	xcomp
50	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 bin	obj
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 long	advmod
52	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 bleach	advmod
53	dat	dat	SCONJ	_	55 bin	mark
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 bin	nsubj
55	bin	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 bleach	advcl
56	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 bin	obj
57	bleach	bleach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 bin	advcl
58	out	out	ADP	_	57 bleach	compound:prt
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 w'ite	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 w'ite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Tooby		er my han's w'ite and honey	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle	Tooby		quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	en and w'en	dat and dey wuz and kaze		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	w'en in a quote	participle		a time not said here		tree rules
5	do in a quote	past	Tooby	kaze not said here		tree rules
6	bin in a quote	infinitive	Tooby not said here	yer		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yer=Theme
7	bin in a quote	present	Tooby	sorter		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sorter=Theme
8	bleach out in a quote	present	Tooby not said here		long property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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