Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 17
Deze town boys can't play no more uv dere games on me.
Who acts: town boys · What happens: not play · To what, where: more dere games
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town boys), 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 | Deze | Deze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 town | compound |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boys | compound |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 play | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 play | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 play | advmod |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 games | amod |
| 9 | uv | ultra-violet | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 10 dere | compound |
| 10 | dere | dere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 games | compound |
| 11 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 play | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 play | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not play | can | town boys | more dere games | on me | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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