Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 55
Some niggers mighty smart, but dey can't drive de pidgins ter roos'.
Who acts: dey, de pidgins · What happens: not drive, ter · To what, where: roos
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 (dey, de pidgins), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 niggers | det |
| 2 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smart | nsubj |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 smart | amod |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drive | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 drive | cc |
| 7 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drive | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drive | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 drive | advmod |
| 10 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 smart | parataxis |
| 11 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pidgins | compound |
| 12 | pidgins | pidgin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ter | nsubj |
| 13 | ter | ter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drive | parataxis |
| 14 | roos | roo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ter | obj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 roos | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not drive | can | dey | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ter | present | de pidgins | roos | 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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