Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 8

Hit's de nas'ness un it w'at gits me."

Who acts: de nas'ness un · What happens: w'at · To what, where: gits

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 nas'ness un), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 un	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Hit	case
3	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 un	compound
4	nas'ness	nas'ness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 un	compound
5	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 w'at	nsubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 w'at	nsubj
7	w'at	w'at	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 w'at	obj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gits	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 w'at	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 w'at	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	w'at	past	Hit's de nas'ness un	gits					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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