Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 4
"Don't you come foolin' longer me, nigger.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, come · To what, where: foolin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | ccomp |
| 6 | foolin | foolin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 me | punct |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 me | advmod |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 foolin | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nigger | punct |
| 11 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foolin | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | you | foolin and nigger | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foolin=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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