Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 17

You slap de law onter a nigger a time er two, an' larn 'im dat he's got fer to look after his own rashuns an' keep out'n udder fokes's chick'n-coops, an' sorter coax 'im inter de idee dat he's got ter feed 'is own chilluns, an' I be blessed ef you ain't got 'im on risin' groun'.

Who acts: You, des, fer, time er, udder fokes, I · What happens: slap, larn, get, look, rashun, keep · To what, where: de law, fer, nigger, coax im inter, ter feed, keep own chilluns

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 (You, des, fer, time er), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 slap	nsubj
2	slap	slap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	4 law	compound
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slap	obj
5	onter	onter	X	Foreign=Yes	2 slap	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nigger	det
7	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 onter	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 er	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	compound
10	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rashuns	nsubj
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 er	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dat	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dat	det
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 larn	punct
15	larn	larn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dat	compound
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 larn	punct
17	im	im	ADP	_	18 dat	case
18	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 er	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 dat	acl:relcl
22	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 got	xcomp
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 own	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 own	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 look	obl
28	rashuns	rashun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 nigger	acl:relcl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 chilluns	det
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 chilluns	compound
32	out'n	out'n	CCONJ	_	38 coops	cc
33	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fokes	compound
34	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 coops	nsubj
35	's	's	PART	_	34 fokes	case
36	chick'n	chick'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 coops	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 chick'n	punct
38	coops	coop	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 keep	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 inter	punct
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 inter	det
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 coax	punct
42	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 coax	compound
43	coax	coax	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 inter	compound
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 coax	punct
45	im	im	X	_	46 inter	compound
46	inter	inter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 coops	nmod
47	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	49 dat	compound
48	idee	idee	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 dat	compound
49	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 inter	conj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 got	nsubj
51	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 got	aux
52	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 dat	acl:relcl
53	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 feed	compound
54	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 got	obj
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	52 got	punct
56	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 chilluns	cop
57	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 chilluns	amod
58	chilluns	chillun	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rashuns	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 ef	punct
60	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 ef	det
61	'	'	PUNCT	_	65 ef	punct
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	65 ef	nsubj
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 ef	cop
64	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 ef	amod
65	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 chilluns	conj
66	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	69 got	nsubj
67	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 got	aux
68	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 got	advmod
69	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	65 ef	acl:relcl
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	71 im	punct
71	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 got	obl
72	on	on	ADP	_	73 risin	case
73	risin	risin	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 im	nmod
74	'	'	PUNCT	_	75 groun	punct
75	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 risin	appos
76	'	'	PUNCT	_	75 groun	punct
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slap	present	You	de law		onter obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Patient
2	larn	infinitive					tree rules
3	get	present · passive	des	fer			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	fer not said here		after des's own		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	rashun	present	a time er and a larn dat	a nigger not said here			tree rules
6	keep	infinitive					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	coop		udder fokes	a coax im inter and de idee dat			tree rules
8	get	present · passive	des	ter feed			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feed=Stimulus
9	is a	present		a keep own chilluns and a blessed ef			tree rules
10	is a	infinitive	I	a blessed ef			tree rules
11	not get	present · passive	you	im on risin			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus

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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