Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIV. That Deceitful Jug, sentence 57

Now that it's gittin' sorter airish in de mornin's, dey don't 'pear like de same niggers.

Who acts: outen · What happens: be, not ' · To what, where: sorter airish, de mornin, pear

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 (outen), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 '	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 airish	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 airish	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 airish	cop
5	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 airish	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 gittin	case
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 airish	compound
8	airish	airish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mornin	case
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 mornin	compound
11	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 airish	nmod
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mornin	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dey	punct
14	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 airish	conj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 '	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 '	advmod
17	'	'	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 '	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 niggers	case
20	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 niggers	amod
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 niggers	amod
22	niggers	nigger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pear	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 '	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	outen	gittin's sorter airish and dey		de mornin			tree rules
2	not '	present · do-support		pear			now	like de same niggers	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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