Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust, sentence 28
En yit no dus' ain't flew'd.
Who acts: En, ai · What happens: yit, not fly · To what, where: dus
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXX. How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded in Raising a Dust. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (En, ai), 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 yit | nsubj |
| 2 | yit | yit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 dus | det |
| 4 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yit | obj |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 flew | advmod |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dus | acl |
| 9 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yit | past | En | no dus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fly | past | ai | no dus not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dus=Theme |
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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