Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 13

An' de nigger w'at k'n trapes 'round wid pies and not git in no alley-way an' sample um, den I'm bleedzd ter say dat nigger out- niggers me an' my fambly.

Who acts: de nigger w'at · What happens: be · To what, where: niggers

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (de nigger w'at), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 w'at	det
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 w'at	punct
3	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 w'at	amod
4	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 w'at	compound
5	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	nsubj
6	k'n	k'n	CCONJ	_	7 trapes	cc
7	trapes	trape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 w'at	conj
8	'	's	PART	_	7 trapes	case
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 pies	case
10	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pies	amod
11	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 w'at	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 git	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 git	advmod
14	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pies	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 way	det
17	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 alley	punct
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 git	nmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 um	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 um	punct
22	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 um	compound
23	um	um	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 den	punct
25	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pies	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 say	nsubj
27	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 say	cop
28	bleedzd	bleedzd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ter	amod
29	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	nsubj
30	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nigger	compound
32	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 niggers	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 out	punct
35	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 say	obl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 niggers	obj
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 my	det
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	39 my	punct
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 niggers	nmod
40	fambly	fambly	ADV	_	39 my	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a de nigger w'at round wid pies and git in no alley way a sample um and den k'n trapes			niggers my		say property	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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