Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail, sentence 11
Dem Favers's wa'n't no 'count 'fo' de war, en dey wa'n't no 'count endurin' er de war, en dey ain't no 'count atterwards, en w'iles my head's hot you ain't gwineter go mixin' up yo'se'f wid de riff-raff er creashun."
Who acts: no, you · What happens: not count, count, not go up · To what, where: endurin, atterwards, mixin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVII. Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (no, you), 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 | Dem | Dem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wa' | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Favers | Favers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Dem | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dem | case |
| 4 | wa' | wa' | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 count | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 count | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
| 8 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wa' | appos |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
| 10 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 13 war | case |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 war | punct |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 war | compound |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dey | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dey | compound |
| 16 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | conj |
| 17 | wa' | wa' | INTJ | _ | 21 count | discourse |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 count | advmod |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 count | nsubj |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 count | punct |
| 21 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dey | appos |
| 22 | endurin | endurin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 count | obj |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 endurin | punct |
| 24 | er | er | X | _ | 26 war | compound |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 er | flat:foreign |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 endurin | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ai | punct |
| 28 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dey | compound |
| 29 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ai | compound |
| 30 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 war | conj |
| 31 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 no | advmod |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 ai | nmod |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 count | punct |
| 34 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 no | parataxis |
| 35 | atterwards | atterward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 count | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 w'iles | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 w'iles | compound |
| 38 | w'iles | w'ile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 atterwards | conj |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hot | compound |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 head | case |
| 42 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 w'iles | acl:relcl |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 go | nsubj |
| 44 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 go | aux |
| 45 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 go | advmod |
| 46 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 go | nsubj |
| 47 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 atterwards | parataxis |
| 48 | mixin | mixin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 go | obj |
| 49 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 mixin | punct |
| 50 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 go | compound:prt |
| 51 | yo'se'f | yo'se'f | ADP | _ | 57 er | case |
| 52 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 er | amod |
| 53 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 er | amod |
| 54 | riff | riff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 raff | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 riff | punct |
| 56 | raff | raff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 er | compound |
| 57 | er | er | ADV | Typo=Yes | 47 go | obl |
| 58 | creashun | creashun | X | _ | 57 er | goeswith |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wa' | punct |
| 60 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wa' | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | infinitive | no | endurin and er war and dey ai no | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent endurin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | count | infinitive | atterwards and en w'iles | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent atterward=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not go up | present | you | mixin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mixin=Extent |
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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