Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 10
Hit's done got so it's agin de law fer ter bus' loose an' kill a nigger, ain't it, boss?"
Who acts: Hit, w'at · What happens: do, get, be, lose, kill · To what, where: Hit, agin, nigger
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, w'at), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Hit | case |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hit | acl |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 agin | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agin | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 agin | cop |
| 8 | agin | agin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 agin | flat:foreign |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fer | compound |
| 11 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ter | compound |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bus | compound |
| 13 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agin | conj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 loose | punct |
| 15 | loose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 bus | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 kill | det |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 kill | punct |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 loose | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nigger | det |
| 20 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kill | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ai | punct |
| 22 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nigger | conj |
| 23 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 it | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ai | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 boss | punct |
| 26 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nigger | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | Hit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Hit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | w'at | agin and ter bus | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | kill | infinitive | a nigger and ai w'at and boss | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nigger=Theme |
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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