Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 60
Hit's a mighty deaf nigger dat don't year de dinner-ho'n.
Who acts: Hit, mighty deaf nigger dat, year · What happens: be, do, not ho'n · To what, where: mighty deaf nigger dat
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 (Hit, mighty deaf nigger dat, year), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dat | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dat | amod |
| 5 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dat | amod |
| 6 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | compound |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ho'n | advmod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ho'n | nsubj |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ho'n | amod |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ho'n | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dinner | punct |
| 14 | ho'n | ho'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hit | a mighty deaf nigger dat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | a mighty deaf nigger dat not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not ho'n | year | 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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