Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 4
Some niggers ain't gwine ter wuk nohow, an' hit's flingin' way time fer ter set enny chain-gang traps fer ter ketch um."
Who acts: flingin · What happens: set · To what, where: enny gang traps
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 (flingin), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 niggers | det |
| 2 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gwine | advmod |
| 5 | gwine | gwine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wuk | amod |
| 6 | ter | ter | X | _ | 7 wuk | compound |
| 7 | wuk | wuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | obj |
| 8 | nohow | nohow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wuk | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flingin | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hit | det |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 hit | punct |
| 12 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flingin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 hit | case |
| 14 | flingin | flingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | nsubj |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 flingin | punct |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fer | compound |
| 18 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ter | compound |
| 19 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | nsubj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wuk | acl:relcl |
| 21 | enny | enny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 traps | amod |
| 22 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gang | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 chain | punct |
| 24 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 traps | compound |
| 25 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obj |
| 26 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 um | amod |
| 27 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ketch | compound |
| 28 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 um | compound |
| 29 | um | um | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 traps | nmod:poss |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | a hit's flingin | fer ketch um's enny gang traps | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result |
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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