Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 20

I gotter muskit out dar w'at's used ter persidin' 'roun' whar dey's a cripple nigger.

Who acts: I, roun whar dey · What happens: gotter out, use, be · To what, where: muskit, cripple nigger

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 (I, roun whar 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 gotter	nsubj
2	gotter	gotter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	muskit	muskit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gotter	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 gotter	compound:prt
5	dar	dar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 w'at	amod
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gotter	obj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 w'at	case
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 persidin	amod
9	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 persidin	compound
10	persidin	persidin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 w'at	conj
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 nigger	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 roun	punct
13	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dey	compound
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 roun	punct
15	whar	whar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dey	amod
16	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nigger	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 nigger	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nigger	det
19	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nigger	compound
20	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 persidin	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gotter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gotter out	present	I	muskit	tree rules
2	use	participle			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	roun whar dey	a cripple nigger	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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