Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 17

Hit's agin de mor'l law fer niggers fer ter eat w'en dey don't wuk, an' w'en you see um 'pariently fattenin' on a'r, you k'n des bet dat ruinashun's gwine on some'rs.

Who acts: fer ter, fer niggers, you · What happens: eat, not wuk, see, k'n, bet · To what, where: w'en dey, agin, a'r, des, dat, some'rs

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Turnip Salad As a Text. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fer ter, fer niggers, 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	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 agin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hit	case
3	agin	agin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	3 agin	flat:foreign
5	mor'l	mor'l	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fer	compound
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fer	compound
7	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 niggers	compound
8	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wuk	nsubj
9	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 ter	amod
10	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 niggers	acl:relcl
12	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dey	compound
13	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wuk	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wuk	advmod
16	wuk	wuk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agin	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 w'en	punct
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 w'en	det
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 w'en	punct
20	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agin	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fattenin	compound
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 um	punct
25	pariently	pariently	ADV	_	26 fattenin	advmod
26	fattenin	fattenin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 fattenin	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 a'r	case
29	a'r	a'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 k'n	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 k'n	nsubj
32	k'n	k'n	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 bet	advcl
33	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 k'n	obj
34	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 see	parataxis
35	dat	dat	X	_	34 bet	obj
36	ruinashun	ruinashun	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 gwine	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 ruinashun	case
38	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dat	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 some'rs	case
40	some'rs	some'r	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dat	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	fer ter	w'en dey		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dey=Patient
2	not wuk	present · do-support	fer niggers	Hit's agin and a w'en not said here		tree rules
3	see	present	you	Hit's agin and a w'en	a'r	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fattenin=Stimulus
4	k'n	present	you	des		tree rules
5	bet	present		dat	some'rs	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dat=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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