Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 110

Hi my rinktum! let de yaller gal lone; Niggers don't hanker arter sody in de pone.

Who acts: rinktum, Niggers · What happens: let, not hanker · To what, where: yaller gal, arter sody, de pone

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rinktum, 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	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rinktum	nmod:poss
3	rinktum	rinktum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 rinktum	punct
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 let	xcomp
7	yaller	yaller	X	_	8 gal	compound
8	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obj
9	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hanker	punct
11	Niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hanker	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hanker	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hanker	advmod
14	hanker	hanker	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
15	arter	art	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 sody	amod
16	sody	sody	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hanker	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 pone	case
18	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pone	amod
19	pone	pone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hanker	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	my rinktum	yaller gal				lone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gal=Theme
2	not hanker	present · do-support	Niggers	arter sody		de pone			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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