Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. in the Role of a Tartar, sentence 41
"He's one er deze yer scurshun niggers from Charlstun.
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: one er deze
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 (man), 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 | _ | 6 deze | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deze | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deze | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 deze | nummod |
| 5 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deze | compound |
| 6 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | yer | y | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 niggers | amod |
| 8 | scurshun | scurshun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 niggers | compound |
| 9 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deze | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Charlstun | case |
| 11 | Charlstun | Charlstun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 niggers | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | man | one er deze and yer scurshun niggers from Charlstun | tree rules |
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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