Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. the Fourth of July, sentence 9
"Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer ter strike up wid one er deze Mobile niggers?" asked Uncle Remus. "'
Who acts: you, fer ter, Uncle Remus · What happens: not have, strike up, wi, ask · 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, fer ter, Uncle Remus), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 2 | Dey | Dey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ai | advmod |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 ai | obj |
| 6 | er | er | INTJ | _ | 12 had | discourse |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 9 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | compound |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ai | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 ter | det |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 ter | punct |
| 15 | casion | casion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fer | compound |
| 16 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ter | compound |
| 17 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wid | nsubj |
| 18 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ter | acl:relcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 strike | compound:prt |
| 20 | wid | wi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 deze | nummod |
| 22 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deze | compound |
| 23 | deze | deze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | Mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 niggers | amod |
| 25 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 deze | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 deze | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 deze | punct |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wid | parataxis |
| 29 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Remus | compound |
| 30 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strike up in a quote | present | no fer ter not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wi in a quote | past | no fer ter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Uncle Remus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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