Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness, sentence 17
Hit's des like I tell you: de nigger wern't sick a minnit.
Who acts: des · What happens: tell · To what, where: de nigger wer, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Jeems Rober'son's Last Illness. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (des), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 des | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 I | case |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 des | nmod |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 wer | punct |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wer | amod |
| 10 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wer | compound |
| 11 | wer | wer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | obl |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sick | advmod |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wer | amod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 minnit | det |
| 15 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sick | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Hit's des like I | de nigger wer | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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