Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 35
Brer John Henry say dat I oughter subdue my rashfulness, an' I don't 'spute it, but tu'n a Mobile nigger loose in dis town, fote er July or no fote er July, an', me er him, one is got ter lan' in jail.
Who acts: Brer, dat, I, oughter · What happens: say, subdue, not ', spute, get · To what, where: rashfulness, one, jail · 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 (Brer, dat, I, oughter), 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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subdue | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 subdue | nsubj |
| 7 | oughter | oughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subdue | nsubj |
| 8 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rashfulness | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rashfulness | rashfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subdue | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spute | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spute | det |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ' | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ' | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ' | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 ' | advmod |
| 17 | ' | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 spute | compound |
| 18 | spute | spute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rashfulness | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 spute | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 loose | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 loose | cc |
| 22 | tu'n | tu'n | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 loose | nsubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nigger | det |
| 24 | Mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nigger | amod |
| 25 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tu'n | obj |
| 26 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 28 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 town | compound |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loose | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 July | punct |
| 31 | fote | fote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 er | compound |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 July | nmod:desc |
| 33 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 me | nsubj |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 fote | cc |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 fote | det |
| 36 | fote | fote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 July | conj |
| 37 | er | er | ADP | _ | 38 July | case |
| 38 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 fote | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 me | punct |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 me | det |
| 41 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 42 me | punct |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 town | nmod |
| 43 | er | er | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 me | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 got | punct |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 got | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 got | aux:pass |
| 48 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 loose | parataxis |
| 49 | ter | ter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 lan | amod |
| 50 | lan | lan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 got | obj |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 lan | punct |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 jail | case |
| 53 | jail | jail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 got | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Brer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | subdue | infinitive | dat | my rashfulness and a ' spute | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rashfulness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not ' | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spute | oughter | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | get | present · passive | one | jail | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary lan=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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