Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVII. As to Education, sentence 8

"Nothin', boss, 'ceppin I ain't gwineter hav' no nigger chillun a hoopin' an' a hollerin' at me w'en I'm gwine long de streets."

Who acts: Nothin boss, nigger chillun, matter · What happens: not be, have, w'en, be · To what, where: gwineter, gwine long de streets

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 (Nothin boss, nigger chillun, matter), 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 Nothin	punct
2	Nothin	Nothin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boss	compound
3	',	',	PUNCT	_	2 Nothin	punct
4	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gwineter	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ceppin	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 ceppin	punct
7	ceppin	ceppin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boss	conj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gwineter	nsubj
9	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gwineter	cop
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 gwineter	advmod
11	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	hav	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 gwineter	parataxis
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 w'en	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 chillun	det
15	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chillun	compound
16	chillun	chillun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	nsubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hoopin	det
18	hoopin	hoopin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'en	compound
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 hollerin	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hollerin	det
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 hollerin	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hollerin	det
23	hollerin	hollerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hoopin	conj
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 hollerin	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hollerin	obl
27	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 streets	obl
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 streets	nsubj
29	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 streets	cop
30	gwine	gwine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 streets	amod
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 streets	amod
32	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 streets	compound
33	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hav	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gwineter	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 gwineter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Nothin boss and ceppin	gwineter	tree rules
2	have in a quote	infinitive			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	w'en in a quote		no nigger chillun		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	the matter = matter	gwine long de streets	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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