Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VIII. Race Improvement, sentence 19
W'en you does dat, ef you ain't got yo' han's on a new-made nigger, den my name ain't Remus, an' ef dat name's bin changed I ain't seen her abbertized."
Who acts: W'en, you, bin, I, my · What happens: do, not get, make, change, not see, name · To what, where: dat, yo, Remus
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 (W'en, you, bin, I), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 W'en | flat |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ef | punct |
| 6 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dat | appos |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 8 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ef | acl:relcl |
| 11 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 nigger | punct |
| 13 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nigger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 han | case |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 nigger | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nigger | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 new | punct |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 nigger | amod |
| 20 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yo | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 den | punct |
| 22 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nigger | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ai | nsubj |
| 25 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 Remus | advmod |
| 27 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ai | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 changed | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 name | det |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 name | punct |
| 31 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dat | compound |
| 32 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 name | compound |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bin | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 name | case |
| 35 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 changed | nsubj |
| 36 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Remus | acl:relcl |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 seen | nsubj |
| 38 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 seen | aux |
| 39 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 seen | advmod |
| 40 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 changed | ccomp |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 abbertized | nmod:poss |
| 42 | abbertized | abbertized | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 seen | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | W'en | dat | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dat=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not get | present · passive | you | yo | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yo=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | change | past | a dat name's bin | Remus not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not see | present · passive | I | abbertized property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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