Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog, sentence 33

Atter de sun goes down dis day you don't fool no mo' folks gwine 'long dis road.'

Who acts: Atter sun, you, folks gwine · What happens: go down, not fool, road · To what, where: mo

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXIV. Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Atter sun, you, folks gwine), 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	Atter	Atter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
2	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Atter	flat:foreign
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	compound
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl:unmarked
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 fool	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fool	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fool	advmod
11	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 goes	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 mo	det
13	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fool	obj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 fool	punct
15	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gwine	compound
16	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 road	nsubj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 gwine	punct
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
19	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 road	compound
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fool	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present	Atter sun		day	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not fool	present · do-support	you	no mo			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Patient
3	road		folks gwine				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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