Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 48
Nigger wid a pocket-hankcher better be looked atter.
Who acts: Nigger · What happens: wi, look, be · To what, where: pocket hankcher, better looked atter
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 | Nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | nsubj |
| 2 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hankcher | det |
| 4 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hankcher | compound | ||
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 pocket | punct |
| 6 | hankcher | hankcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | obj |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 atter | amod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 atter | cop |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 atter | amod |
| 10 | atter | atter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wid | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wi | past | Nigger | a pocket hankcher | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | participle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | better looked atter | 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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