Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 13

I speck I'm ez fon' er deze Nunited States ez de nex' man w'at knows dat de Buro is busted up; but long ez Remus kin stan' on his hin' legs no Mobile nigger can't flip inter dis town longer no Wes' P'int 'schushun an' boss 'roun' 'mong de cullud fokes.

Who acts: I, nex man w'at, Mobile nigger · What happens: speck, be, know, bust up, not flip · To what, where: ez fon, Nunited States, dat, inter dis town · 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 (I, nex man w'at, Mobile nigger), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 speck	nsubj
2	speck	speck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fon	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fon	cop
5	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fon	amod
6	fon	fon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speck	ccomp
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fon	punct
8	er	er	X	_	9 deze	compound
9	deze	deze	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 States	nmod:desc
10	Nunited	Nunited	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 States	compound
11	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 knows	obl
12	ez	ez	X	_	14 nex	compound
13	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 ez	flat:foreign
14	nex	nex	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 w'at	compound
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 nex	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 w'at	compound
17	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fon	parataxis
19	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 busted	nsubj:pass
20	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dat	appos
21	Buro	Buro	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 de	flat
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 busted	aux:pass
23	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 knows	ccomp
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 busted	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 kin	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 kin	cc
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kin	amod
28	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 kin	amod
29	Remus	remus	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kin	compound
30	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speck	parataxis
31	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 kin	appos
32	'	'	PUNCT	_	31 stan	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 hin	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hin	nmod:poss
35	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 legs	obl
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	35 hin	punct
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 kin	nmod
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 nigger	det
39	Mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 nigger	amod
40	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flip	nsubj
41	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 flip	aux
42	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 flip	advmod
43	flip	flip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 legs	acl:relcl
44	inter	int	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 town	amod
45	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 town	compound
46	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 flip	obj
47	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 schushun	advmod
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 Wes	det
49	Wes	we	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 schushun	nmod:poss
50	'	's	PART	_	49 Wes	case
51	P'int	P'int	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 schushun	compound
52	'	'	PUNCT	_	51 P'int	punct
53	schushun	schushun	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 town	nmod
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 roun	det
55	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 roun	punct
56	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 roun	compound
57	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 roun	punct
58	roun	roun	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 mong	nmod:poss
59	'	'	PUNCT	_	58 roun	punct
60	'	's	PART	_	58 roun	case
61	mong	mong	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 schushun	nmod
62	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	64 fokes	compound
63	cullud	cullud	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fokes	compound
64	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 mong	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 speck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	speck	present	I		tree rules
2	is a	present	I	ez fon	tree rules
3	know	present	nex man w'at	Nunited States er deze	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bust up	present · passive		dat	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	not flip	can	no Mobile nigger	inter dis town no Wes's P'int schushun a boss roun's mong and de cullud fokes	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=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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