Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 18
Boss, de nigger dat mauled me ain't bo'nded yit, an' dey er got ter have anudder war 'fo one is bo'nded."
Who acts: Boss, dey er, ter · What happens: maul, not bo'nd, get, have, bo'nd · To what, where: me, anudder war, one
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 (Boss, dey er, ter), 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 | Boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mauled | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 3 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dat | amod |
| 4 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | compound |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Boss | conj |
| 6 | mauled | maul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mauled | obj |
| 8 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 yit | compound |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bo'nded | advmod |
| 10 | bo'nded | bo'nd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 yit | amod |
| 11 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mauled | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 have | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 15 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 er | compound |
| 16 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | advcl |
| 18 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 yit | conj |
| 20 | anudder | anudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 war | compound |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 war | punct |
| 23 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 26 bo'nded | mark |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bo'nded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bo'nded | aux:pass |
| 26 | bo'nded | bo'nd | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mauled | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mauled | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mauled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maul | past | Boss and de nigger dat | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bo'nd | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | get | past | dey er | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | have | present | ter | anudder war | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bo'nd | present · passive | one | 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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