Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 34

Dey useter call me er bad nigger long 'fo' de war, an hit looks like ter me dat I gits wuss an' wuss.

Who acts: you, hit, I · What happens: call, look, wuss · To what, where: me · 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, hit, I), 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 useter	compound
2	useter	useter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	compound
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 long	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nigger	amod
7	nigger	nigger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 call	xcomp
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 war	case
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 war	punct
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 war	compound
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looks	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hit	det
16	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looks	nsubj
17	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	advcl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 me	case
19	ter	ter	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 looks	obl
21	dat	dat	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 wuss	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 wuss	nsubj
23	gits	git	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wuss	compound
24	wuss	wuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looks	obl
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wuss	det
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 wuss	punct
27	wuss	wuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wuss	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	me	long property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	look	present	a hit		like me	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	wuss		I			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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