Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 1

"Dere's a kind er limberness 'bout niggers dese days dat's mighty cu'us," remarked Uncle Remus yesterday, as he deposited a pitcher of fresh water upon the exchange table. "

Who acts: Dere, Uncle, limberness · What happens: be, remark, deposit · To what, where: kind er limberness, mighty cu'us, pitcher, exchange table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VIII. Race Improvement. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dere, Uncle, limberness), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 limberness	punct
2	Dere	Dere	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 limberness	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 limberness	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 limberness	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 limberness	amod
6	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limberness	compound
7	limberness	limberness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 niggers	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 limberness	punct
9	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 niggers	compound
10	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	dese	dese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 niggers	appos
13	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cu'us	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 dat	case
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cu'us	amod
16	cu'us	cu'us	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 days	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 remarked	punct
19	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cu'us	acl:relcl
20	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 remarked	obj
21	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Uncle	flat
22	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remarked	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deposited	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 deposited	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 deposited	nsubj
26	deposited	deposit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 remarked	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pitcher	det
28	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deposited	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 water	case
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pitcher	nmod
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 table	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 table	det
34	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 table	compound
35	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 deposited	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 niggers	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 niggers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Dere	a kind er limberness			tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle	Uncle	dat's mighty cu'us not said here		yesterday	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cu'us=Topic
3	deposit	past	limberness	a pitcher of fresh water	the exchange table		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme upon table=Destination

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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