Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 31

Hongry nigger won't w'ar his maul out.

Who acts: Hongry nigger · What happens: not w'ar, maul out

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hongry nigger), 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	Hongry	hongry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nigger	amod
2	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 w'ar	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 w'ar	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 w'ar	advmod
5	w'ar	w'ar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 maul	nmod:poss
7	maul	maul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 w'ar	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 maul	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 w'ar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not w'ar	future	Hongry nigger						tree rules
2	maul out	infinitive	Hongry nigger not said here						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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