Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 5

Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-eight, Christ done make dat crooked way straight-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-nine, Christ done tu'n dat water inter wine-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.

Who acts: forty eight, I, eighteen hunder · What happens: do, make, not wanter, stay · To what, where: dat crooked way, yer

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 (forty eight, I, eighteen hunder), 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	10 eight	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eight	aux
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eight	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 en	punct
8	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eight	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 make	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eight	punct
12	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 eight	nmod:unmarked
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 eight	acl
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	compound
16	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 wanter	punct
20	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wanter	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 wanter	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 wanter	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wanter	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wanter	advmod
25	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obl
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	conj
27	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 stay	obj
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 stay	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 done	punct
31	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hunder	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Hit	case
33	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hunder	nummod
34	hunder	hunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 done	nsubj
35	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 forty	aux
36	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hunder	nmod
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 en	punct
38	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 forty	flat
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 nine	punct
40	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 en	appos
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Christ	punct
42	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 hunder	nmod
43	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 make	parataxis
44	tu'n	tu'n	CCONJ	_	48 wine	cc
45	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 wine	amod
46	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 inter	compound
47	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wine	compound
48	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 done	conj
49	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 wanter	punct
50	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 wanter	det
51	'	'	PUNCT	_	55 wanter	punct
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 wanter	nsubj
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 wanter	aux
54	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 wanter	advmod
55	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 wine	conj
56	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 done	advcl
57	yer	yer	PRON	Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 stay	obj
58	no	no	ADV	_	59 longer	advmod
59	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	56 stay	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	infinitive	forty eight Christ	dat crooked way	straight property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
3	not wanter	present · do-support	I			tree rules
4	stay	infinitive	forty eight Christ not said here	yer	long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location
5	do	past	Hit's eighteen hunder forty Christ			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not wanter	present · do-support	I			tree rules
7	stay	infinitive	Hit's eighteen hunder forty Christ not said here	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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