Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 12

Hit may be de fote er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season.

Who acts: you, Mobile nigger gits · What happens: hit, bide · To what, where: de

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, Mobile nigger gits), 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	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 de	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 de	cop
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Hit	obl
5	fote	fote	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Hit	obj
6	er	er	X	_	8 fif	compound
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 er	flat:foreign
8	fif	fif	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 fif	punct
10	er	er	ADP	_	11 July	case
11	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hit	punct
13	er	er	INTJ	_	14 hit	discourse
14	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 de	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 de	cop
17	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	14 hit	obj
18	twelf	twelf	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hit	obl
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 hit	punct
20	er	er	ADP	_	21 Jinawerry	case
21	Jinawerry	Jinawerry	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hit	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 w'en	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 w'en	cc
24	w'en	w'en	X	Foreign=Yes	14 hit	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 gits	det
26	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 gits	amod
27	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gits	compound
28	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bode	nsubj
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 den	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 den	nmod:poss
31	naberhood	naberhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 den	compound
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 den	amod
33	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gits	nmod
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sails	det
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 sails	punct
36	dar	dar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trubble	compound
37	trubble	trubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sails	compound
38	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bode	nsubj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 gages	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 gages	det
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	43 gages	punct
42	'	's	PART	_	41 '	case
43	gages	gage	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sails	nmod
44	bode	bide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 w'en	acl:relcl
45	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 season	compound
46	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 season	amod
47	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bode	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	de	july	er fif obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fote=Co-Theme
2	hit	past	you not said here	de		er Jinawerry; twelf obl	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent de=Patient w'en=Result
3	bide	past	a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den		season		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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