Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 45
You niggers 'cross dar! you better stop your dancin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: you · What happens: stop · To what, where: dancin
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 (you), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 niggers | nsubj |
| 2 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 niggers | case |
| 4 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dar | amod |
| 5 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 niggers | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 niggers | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 you | xcomp |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 niggers | parataxis |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dancin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dancin | dancin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stop | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 stop | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 15 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 2 niggers | discourse |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Hey | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 niggers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | you | your dancin | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector dancin=Eventuality |
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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