Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 22
"I seed de biggest, blackest nigger dat you ever laid eyes on.
Who acts: policeman, you · What happens: seed, lay · To what, where: eyes
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 (policeman, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seed | nsubj |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nigger | nsubj |
| 4 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 seed | flat:foreign |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 nigger | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 biggest | punct |
| 7 | blackest | black | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 nigger | amod |
| 8 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | dat | dat | SCONJ | _ | 12 laid | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 laid | advmod |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nigger | advcl |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laid | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 laid | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seed in a quote | the policeman = policeman | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | lay in a quote | past | you | eyes | ever | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Result |
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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