Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 12

Dey er gittin' so dey bleeve dat dey ain't no better dan de w'ite fokes.

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: 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gittin	compound
2	er	er	X	_	3 gittin	compound
3	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleeve	nsubj
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 gittin	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 bleeve	advmod
6	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleeve	compound
7	bleeve	bleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	dat	dat	ADP	_	10 ai	case
9	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ai	compound
10	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bleeve	nmod
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 better	advmod
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 better	advmod
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bleeve	acl:relcl
14	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	13 better	conj
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 dan	flat:foreign
16	w'ite	w'ite	X	Foreign=Yes	14 dan	flat:foreign
17	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dan	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bleeve	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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