Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 65

De spring-house may freeze, but de niggers 'll keep de shuck-pen warm. '

Who acts: De spring house, de niggers · What happens: freeze, keep · To what, where: de shuck pen

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 (De spring house, de niggers), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 spring	punct
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freeze	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 freeze	aux
6	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 keep	cc
9	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 niggers	amod
10	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 keep	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 keep	aux
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 freeze	conj
13	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pen	amod
14	shuck	shuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pen	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shuck	punct
16	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	obj
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 keep	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 freeze	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 freeze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	may	De spring house						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	keep	future	de niggers	de shuck pen				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme

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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