Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 69

I had dem niggers up en in de fiel' long 'fo' day, en de way dey did wuk wuz a caution.

Who acts: I, dem, de way dey · What happens: have, nigger up, wuz · To what, where: en, de fiel, caution

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 (I, dem, de way dey), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 niggers	nsubj
4	niggers	nigger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 niggers	compound:prt
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 niggers	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fiel	case
8	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fiel	compound
9	fiel	fiel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 niggers	obl
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fo	amod
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
13	fo	fo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fiel	appos
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 fo	punct
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fo	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 en	punct
17	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fo	conj
18	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 dey	compound
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dey	compound
20	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wuz	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wuz	aux
22	wuk	wuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 wuz	nsubj
23	wuz	wuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 en	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 caution	det
25	caution	caution	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wuz	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	I			tree rules
2	nigger up	present	dem	en	de fiel	tree rules
3	wuz	past · do-support	de way dey	a caution		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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