Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 5
Well, dey ain't no tellin' deze days whar a nigger's gwineter lan'."
Who acts: dey ai · What happens: not whar · To what, where: gwineter lan
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 (dey ai), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 11 whar | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ai | compound |
| 4 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whar | nsubj |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 whar | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 days | det |
| 7 | tellin | tellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 days | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 tellin | punct |
| 9 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 days | compound |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 whar | nsubj |
| 11 | whar | whar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nigger | det |
| 13 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lan | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 nigger | case |
| 15 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lan | compound |
| 16 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whar | obj |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 lan | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whar | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 whar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not whar | present | dey ai | a nigger's gwineter lan | 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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