Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, sentence 2
"Folks w'at's allers pesterin' people, en bodderin' 'longer dat w'at ain't der'n, don't never come ter no good een'.
Who acts: Folks · What happens: pester, bother, not be, not come · To what, where: people, der'n, good een
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. the Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:755): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 2 | Folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 come | nsubj |
| 3 | w'at | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pesterin | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pesterin | aux |
| 5 | allers | always | ADV | _ | 6 pesterin | advmod |
| 6 | pesterin | pester | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Folks | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 pesterin | punct |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pesterin | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bodderin | punct |
| 10 | en | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bodderin | cc |
| 11 | bodderin | bother | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pesterin | conj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 bodderin | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 longer | punct |
| 14 | longer | along | ADP | _ | 15 dat | case |
| 15 | dat | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 bodderin | obl |
| 16 | w'at | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 der'n | nsubj |
| 17 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 der'n | cop |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 der'n | advmod |
| 19 | der'n | they | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 dat | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | ter | to | ADP | _ | 28 een | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 een | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 een | amod |
| 28 | een | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 een | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pester in a quote | present · progressive | Folks | people | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | bother in a quote | gerund | Folks not said here | along dat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | der'n = they | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not come in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Folks | to no good een | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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