Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 13

"Law, Miss Doshy! how you know de ole nigger?

Who acts: you · What happens: know

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct
2	Law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Miss	punct
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Law	appos
5	Doshy	Doshy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Miss	flat
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 know	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Law	advcl
10	de	de	ADP	_	12 nigger	case
11	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nigger	amod
12	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Law	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	you					de ole nigger	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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