Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 84
Nigger dat knows he's gwineter git thumped kin sorter fix hisse'f, en I tuck'n fix up like de war wuz gwineter come right in at de front gate.
Who acts: Nigger dat, dat, git, I, en · What happens: know, be, thump, fix, fix up, come · To what, where: kin sorter, hisse'f, en, de front gate · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nigger dat, dat, git, I), 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 | Nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | compound |
| 2 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gwineter | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gwineter | cop |
| 6 | gwineter | gwinet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thumped | nsubj |
| 8 | thumped | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | parataxis |
| 9 | kin | kin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sorter | amod |
| 10 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thumped | obj |
| 11 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thumped | xcomp |
| 12 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fix | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fix | nsubj |
| 16 | tuck'n | tuck'n | CCONJ | _ | 17 fix | cc |
| 17 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 en | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 fix | compound:prt |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 gwineter | case |
| 20 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gwineter | nsubj |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gwineter | compound |
| 22 | wuz | wuz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gwineter | compound |
| 23 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fix | obl |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thumped | parataxis |
| 25 | right | right | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 come | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 gate | case |
| 28 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gate | amod |
| 29 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gate | amod |
| 30 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Nigger dat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | dat | gwinet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thump | past | git | kin sorter | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fix | infinitive | git not said here | hisse'f | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hisse'f=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fix up | infinitive | I | en not said here | like war wuz gwineter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent en=Patient | |||
| 6 | come | present | en | de front gate | right property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=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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