Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 51

"Shoo! dat dey ain't!

Who acts: you · What happens: not shoo · To what, where: dat dey ai

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 (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	_	2 Shoo	punct
2	Shoo	shoo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shoo	punct
4	dat	dat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ai	amod
5	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ai	compound
6	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Shoo	obj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Shoo	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Shoo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shoo in a quote	imperative	you not said here	dat dey ai					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ai=Theme

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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