Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 1. a Plantation Chant, sentence 7
Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-ten, Christ is de mo'ner's onliest fr'en'-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer; Hit's eighteen hunder'd forty-en-lev'm, Christ 'll be at de do' w'en we all git ter Hev'm-- An' I don't wanter stay yer no longer.
Who acts: Christ, I, de mo'ner, eighteen hunder · What happens: be, not wanter, stay · To what, where: yer, de
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 (Christ, I, de mo'ner, 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 | 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 ten | punct |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 en | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Christ | punct |
| 12 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mo'ner | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mo'ner | cop |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 mo'ner | compound |
| 15 | mo'ner | mo'ner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 en | conj |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 mo'ner | case |
| 17 | onliest | only | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 fr'en | amod |
| 18 | fr'en | fr'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mo'ner | conj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fr'en | punct |
| 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 | 27 stay | obl |
| 27 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mo'ner | acl |
| 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 | 65 stay | nsubj |
| 36 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 lev | aux |
| 37 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 lev | nummod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 en | punct |
| 39 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lev | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 en | punct |
| 41 | lev | lev | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hunder | nmod |
| 42 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hunder | dep |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 de | punct |
| 44 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 de | nsubj |
| 45 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 de | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 de | cop |
| 47 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 de | case |
| 48 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hunder | conj |
| 49 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 stay | aux |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 51 w'en | punct |
| 51 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 stay | nsubj |
| 52 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 'm | nsubj |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 git | det |
| 54 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 'm | nsubj |
| 55 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 56 Hev | case |
| 56 | Hev | Hev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 git | nmod |
| 57 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 w'en | acl:relcl |
| 58 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 64 wanter | punct |
| 59 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 wanter | det |
| 60 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 64 wanter | punct |
| 61 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 wanter | nsubj |
| 62 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 wanter | aux |
| 63 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 64 wanter | advmod |
| 64 | wanter | wanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 stay | obl |
| 65 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 en | parataxis |
| 66 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 65 stay | obj |
| 67 | no | no | ADV | _ | 68 longer | advmod |
| 68 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 65 stay | advmod |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Christ | 's de mo'ner and onliest fr'en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wanter | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | de mo'ner and onliest fr'en not said here | yer | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme yer=Location | |||
| 4 | is | future | Christ | de | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not wanter | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stay | present · do-support | Hit's eighteen hunder forty en lev and de | 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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