Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 37
"Nuthin' 'tall, Mars John, 'ceppin deze yer sunshine niggers.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuthin | punct |
| 2 | Nuthin | Nuthin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuthin | punct |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuthin | punct |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Nuthin | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mars | punct |
| 7 | Mars | Mars | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nuthin | conj |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mars | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deze | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 deze | punct |
| 11 | ceppin | ceppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deze | compound |
| 12 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nuthin | conj |
| 13 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 niggers | amod |
| 14 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 niggers | compound |
| 15 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 deze | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nuthin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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