Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 45

Fiddlin' nigger say hit's long ways ter de dance.

Who acts: nigger · What happens: say · To what, where: long ways · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Fiddlin	Fiddlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 nigger	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Fiddlin	case
3	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ways	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hit	case
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ways	amod
8	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
9	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dance	compound
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dance	amod
11	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ways	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Fiddlin's nigger	hit's long ways					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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