Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 45

Dey kin holler Kansas all 'roun' de naberhood, but ceppin' a man come 'long an' spell it wid greenbacks, he don't ketch none er deze yer town niggers.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, spell, not ketch · To what, where: ceppin, none

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 (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	Dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kin	compound
2	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holler	compound
3	holler	holler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Kansas	nmod:desc
4	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 naberhood	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 roun	det
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 roun	punct
7	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 naberhood	nsubj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 roun	punct
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 naberhood	compound
10	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ceppin	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ceppin	cc
13	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 naberhood	appos
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 ceppin	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 naberhood	parataxis
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 come	advmod
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spell	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 spell	punct
22	spell	spell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 long	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spell	obj
24	wid	wid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 greenbacks	amod
25	greenbacks	greenback	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spell	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ketch	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ketch	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 ketch	aux
29	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 ketch	advmod
30	ketch	ketch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 spell	conj
31	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 ketch	obj
32	er	er	X	_	33 deze	compound
33	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 none	conj
34	yer	yer	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 niggers	nmod:poss
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 niggers	compound
36	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 none	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 naberhood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	a man		long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spell	infinitive		ceppin		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme greenback=Manner
3	not ketch	present · do-support	man	none		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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