Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 3

Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-six, Christ is got us a place done fix-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-sev'm Christ done sot a table in Hev'm An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.

Who acts: I, Christ, eighteen hunder, forty en sev · What happens: get, do, not wanter, stay, sev, not stay · To what, where: Christ, us, yer, sot

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 1. a Plantation Chant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Christ, eighteen hunder, forty en sev), 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	4 hunder	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hit	case
3	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hunder	nummod
4	hunder	hunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 en	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 en	aux
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 en	nummod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 six	punct
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 en	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
12	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 got	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 got	aux:pass
14	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 en	conj
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 got	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 place	det
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fix	amod
19	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	conj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 wanter	punct
21	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wanter	det
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 wanter	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 wanter	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wanter	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 wanter	advmod
26	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	conj
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 got	xcomp
28	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 stay	obj
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 stay	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 hunder	punct
32	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 hunder	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Hit	case
34	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hunder	nummod
35	hunder	hunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sev	nsubj
36	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 sev	aux
37	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 sev	nummod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 en	punct
39	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sev	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 en	punct
41	sev	sev	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 en	parataxis
42	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 done	aux
43	Christ	christ	ADV	_	44 done	advmod
44	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 sev	acl:relcl
45	sot	sot	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 done	obj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 table	det
47	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 done	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 Hev	case
49	Hev	Hev	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 table	nmod
50	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 stay	aux
51	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 stay	det
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	57 stay	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 stay	nsubj
54	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 stay	aux
55	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 stay	advmod
56	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 stay	nsubj
57	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 sev	conj
58	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 stay	obj
59	no	no	ADV	_	60 longer	advmod
60	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	57 stay	advmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive		Christ	us		tree rules
2	do	participle					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not wanter	present · do-support	I				tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	Christ not said here	yer		long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location
5	sev	would	Hit's eighteen hunder				tree rules
6	do	present · passive	forty en sev not said here	sot		christ property	tree rules
7	not stay	present · do-support	I	yer		long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location

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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