Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 2

"You ain't hear talk er no dead nigger nowhar dis mawnin', is you, boss?" asked the old man earnestly.

Who acts: You, dead nigger, old man · What happens: not hear, be, ask · To what, where: talk, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, dead nigger, old 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	_	5 hear	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
3	ai	ai	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	ccomp
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
7	er	er	SCONJ	_	16 you	mark
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 nigger	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nigger	amod
10	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 you	nsubj
11	nowhar	nowhar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mawnin	amod
12	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mawnin	compound
13	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nigger	appos
14	',	',	PUNCT	_	13 mawnin	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 you	cop
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boss	punct
18	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obj
25	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	21 asked	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear in a quote		You	talk		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	present	no dead nigger	you		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	the old man		earnestly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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