Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 12
W'at a nigger gwineter larn outen books?
Who acts: you · What happens: w'at, larn · To what, where: nigger gwineter, outen books
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVII. As to Education. 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 | W'at | w'at | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gwineter | det |
| 3 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gwineter | compound |
| 4 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W'at | obj |
| 5 | larn | larn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 W'at | conj |
| 6 | outen | outen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 books | compound |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 larn | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 W'at | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w'at | imperative | you not said here | a nigger gwineter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | larn | infinitive | you not said here | outen books | 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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