Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 44

"An' w'at's mo'," continued the old man, scorning to notice the insinuation, "dough I year Miss Sally w'isslin', an' de peckerwoods a chatterin', I ain't seein' none er deze yer loafin' niggers fixin' up fer ter 'migrate.

Who acts: mo, yer ner dar, none, de peckerwoods · What happens: continue, scorn, notice, w'isslin, not be, ter · To what, where: old man, dough, insinuation, seein, Miss Sally w'isslin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIV. That Deceitful Jug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mo, yer ner dar, none, de peckerwoods), 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	_	6 mo	punct
2	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 w'at	det
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 w'at	punct
4	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mo	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 w'at	case
6	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	nsubj
7	',	',	PUNCT	_	6 mo	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mo	punct
9	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continued	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scorning	punct
14	scorning	scorn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 continued	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 notice	mark
16	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 scorning	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 insinuation	det
18	insinuation	insinuation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 notice	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dough	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 dough	punct
21	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scorning	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 w'isslin	nsubj
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 w'isslin	nsubj
24	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 w'isslin	compound
25	Sally	Sally	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 w'isslin	compound
26	w'isslin	w'isslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dough	acl:relcl
27	',	',	PUNCT	_	31 peckerwoods	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 peckerwoods	det
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 peckerwoods	punct
30	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peckerwoods	compound
31	peckerwoods	peckerwood	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 migrate	nsubj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 chatterin	det
33	chatterin	chatterin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peckerwoods	conj
34	',	',	PART	_	33 chatterin	dep
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 seein	nsubj
36	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 seein	cop
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 seein	advmod
38	seein	seein	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peckerwoods	parataxis
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 seein	punct
40	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	51 ter	nsubj
41	er	er	X	_	51 ter	nsubj
42	deze	deze	X	_	41 er	goeswith
43	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 loafin	nmod:poss
44	loafin	loafin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 niggers	nmod:poss
45	'	's	PART	_	44 loafin	case
46	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fixin	compound
47	fixin	fixin	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 ter	compound
48	'	'	PUNCT	_	47 fixin	punct
49	up	up	ADV	_	50 fer	advmod
50	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 ter	amod
51	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seein	parataxis
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 ter	punct
53	migrate	migrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 w'isslin	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	continue	past	a w'at's mo	the old man	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	scorn	gerund	a w'at's mo not said here	dough	tree rules
3	notice	to-infinitive	a w'at's mo not said here	the insinuation	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer insinuation=Stimulus
4	w'isslin in a quote		yer ner dar = dar	dough not said here	tree rules
5	not is a in a quote	present	yer ner dar = dar	seein	tree rules
6	ter in a quote		none		tree rules
7	migrate in a quote	present	a de peckerwoods and a chatterin	Miss Sally w'isslin not said here	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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