Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 37
You er de freshest nigger w'at I seen yit."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: er, see · To what, where: de freshest nigger w'at, yit
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. in the Role of a Tartar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 er | nsubj |
| 2 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 w'at | compound |
| 4 | freshest | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 w'at | amod |
| 5 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'at | compound |
| 6 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 er | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 w'at | acl |
| 9 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | er | present | You | de freshest nigger w'at | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | I | yit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yit=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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