Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 49
Some new nigger mighter broke inter jail."
Who acts: new nigger mighter · What happens: break · To what, where: inter jail
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 (new nigger mighter), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 mighter | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mighter | amod |
| 3 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mighter | compound |
| 4 | mighter | mighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | nsubj |
| 5 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | inter | int | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 jail | amod |
| 7 | jail | jail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broke | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | some new nigger mighter | inter jail | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jail=Patient |
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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