Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 3
Nuff de matter, honey--mo' dan dey's enny kyo' fer.
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXI. a Plantation Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Nuff | Nuff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Nuff | flat:foreign |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fer | compound |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 honey | punct |
| 5 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | conj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 mo | punct |
| 7 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 mo | punct |
| 9 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dey | compound |
| 10 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kyo | compound |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 dey | case |
| 12 | enny | enny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kyo | compound |
| 13 | kyo | kyo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fer | compound |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 kyo | case |
| 15 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fer | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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