Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XV. the Florida Watermelon, sentence 6

"Hit wuz sorter like dis, boss.

Who acts: you · What happens: hit · To what, where: wuz sorter

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XV. the Florida Watermelon. 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 Hit	punct
2	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wuz	wuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sorter	compound
4	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 dis	case
6	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boss	punct
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hit	parataxis
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	imperative	you not said here	wuz sorter				like dis	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sorter=Co-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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