Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 27
You ain't seed no nigger hump hisse'f like dat nigger.
Who acts: You · What happens: not be · To what, where: seed
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seed | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seed | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seed | advmod |
| 4 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 hisse'f | det |
| 6 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hump | compound |
| 7 | hump | hump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hisse'f | compound |
| 8 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seed | appos |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 nigger | case |
| 10 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nigger | det |
| 11 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hisse'f | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | You | seed | 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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