Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 23
Put a spellin'-book in a nigger's han's, en right den en dar' you loozes a plow-hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: put, looz · To what, where: spellin book, han, plow hand
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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 3 | spellin | spellin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 spellin | punct |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 spellin | punct |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 han | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nigger | det |
| 9 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 han | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 nigger | case |
| 11 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 han | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 en | punct |
| 14 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 han | conj |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dar | amod |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 en | compound |
| 17 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dar | compound |
| 18 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 en | conj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dar | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 loozes | nsubj |
| 21 | loozes | looz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dar | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 23 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 plow | punct |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loozes | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a spellin book | a nigger's han and en and right en dar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme in han=Destination | |||
| 2 | looz | present | you | a plow hand | 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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