Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Turnip Salad As a Text, sentence 8
I year talk er niggers dat's got money in de bank, but I lay hit ain't none er you fellers.
Who acts: I, dat, ai, none · What happens: talk, get, hit, not er · To what, where: er niggers, money, de bank, I, you
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, dat, ai, none), 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 | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 niggers | compound |
| 5 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 talk | obj |
| 6 | dat | dat | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 niggers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | compound |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hit | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hit | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hit | aux:pass |
| 17 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 talk | conj |
| 18 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 hit | obl:agent |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 er | advmod |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 er | nsubj |
| 21 | er | er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hit | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 er | obj |
| 23 | fellers | feller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 er | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | I | er niggers | year | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nigger=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | present · passive | dat | money | de bank | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hit | present · passive | ai | I | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | not er | infinitive | none | you | 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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