Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 29
De nigger dat ain't hope up 'longer high feedin' ain't got no grip.
Who acts: dat ai, high feedin · What happens: not hope up, not get · To what, where: grip · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dat ai, high feedin), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 2 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dat | compound |
| 3 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | compound |
| 4 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hope | advmod |
| 6 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 hope | compound:prt |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 longer | punct |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feedin | amod |
| 11 | feedin | feedin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj:outer |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 got | advmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hope | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 grip | det |
| 17 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope up | present | dat ai | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not get | past | high feedin | no grip | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grip=Stimulus |
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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