Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 11
Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang.
Who acts: you, Uncle Remus · What happens: show, continue, mark · To what, where: Mobile nigger, me, old man, nigger dat, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. the Fourth of July. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Uncle Remus), 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 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Show | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nigger | det |
| 4 | Mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nigger | amod |
| 5 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Show | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Show | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 show | det |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Show | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 show | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dat | det |
| 19 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dat | compound |
| 20 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | obj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 dat | case |
| 22 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dat | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 gang | case |
| 24 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gang | amod |
| 25 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gang | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 chain | punct |
| 27 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | a Mobile nigger | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | the old man | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | Uncle Remus = remus | a nigger dat | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dat=Topic | |||
| 4 | mark in a quote | participle | a nigger dat not said here | for de chain gang | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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