Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 9

Boss, ain't you year 'bout it, sho' 'nuff?"

Who acts: you · What happens: not year

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ai	punct
3	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boss	conj
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 year	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 year	nsubj
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ai	nmod
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 year	punct
8	bout	bout	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 year	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sho	punct
11	sho	sho	NOUN	_	1 Boss	conj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 nuff	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 nuff	punct
14	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sho	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 nuff	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 nuff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not year		you					bout boss	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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