Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 67

"'Mistiss, you kin des 'pen' on de ole nigger.'

Who acts: you · What happens: kin · To what, where: Mistiss, ole nigger

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	_	6 kin	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Mistiss	punct
3	Mistiss	Mistiss	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kin	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kin	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 kin	nsubj
6	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kin	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 pen	punct
9	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 des	appos
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 pen	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 nigger	case
12	de	de	ADP	_	14 nigger	case
13	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 nigger	amod
14	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kin	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kin	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 kin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kin in a quote	present	you	Mistiss		ole nigger			tree rules

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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