Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again, sentence 29

Don't flop yo' wings w'en you laff, kaze den if you duz, sump'n 'ill drap fum up yer, en my gol'-mine won't do you no good, en needer will yone do me no good.'

Who acts: yo wings, you, ill, gol · What happens: not flop, w'en, duz, drap, fum up, do · To what, where: you, good, me

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXI. Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yo wings, you, ill, gol), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 flop	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 flop	advmod
3	flop	flop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 w'en	advcl
4	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	compound
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 yo	punct
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 w'en	nsubj
7	w'en	w'en	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 drap	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 w'en	obj
9	laff	laff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 w'en	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 den	punct
11	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 den	compound
12	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laff	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 duz	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 duz	nsubj
15	duz	duz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 w'en	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sump'n	punct
17	sump'n	sump'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 duz	appos
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 sump'n	punct
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drap	nsubj
20	drap	drap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 drap	ccomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 fum	compound:prt
23	yer	y	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 fum	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 en	punct
25	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drap	conj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 gol	nmod:poss
27	gol	gol	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj:outer
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 gol	punct
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 do	punct
30	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 do	nsubj
31	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 do	aux
32	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 do	advmod
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 needer	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 needer	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 needer	punct
38	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 needer	compound
39	needer	needer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
41	yone	yone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 en	acl:relcl
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 do	iobj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 good	det
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 do	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 drap	punct
47	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 drap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not flop	infinitive · do-support	yo wings not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	w'en	present	yo wings	you		tree rules
3	duz a condition, not said to happen		you			tree rules
4	drap	present	ill			tree rules
5	fum up	infinitive	ill not said here			tree rules
6	do	present · do-support	my gol	no good	me	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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