Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXI. a Plantation Witch, sentence 31

Cunjun fokes kin tell a witch de minnit dey lays der eyes on it, but dem w'at ain't cunjun, hit's mighty hard ter tell w'en dey see one, kaze dey might come in de 'pearunce un a cow en all kinder creeturs.

Who acts: Cunjun, de minnit dey, mighty hard ter, w'en dey, kaze dey · What happens: foke, tell, lay, see, come · To what, where: kin, witch, der eyes, w'en dey, one, de · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Cunjun, de minnit dey, mighty hard ter, w'en dey), 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	Cunjun	Cunjun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fokes	nsubj
2	fokes	foke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fokes	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fokes	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 dey	compound
8	minnit	minnit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dey	compound
9	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lays	nsubj
10	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	acl:relcl
11	der	d	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lays	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ai	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 ai	cc
17	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 w'at	compound
18	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ai	nsubj
19	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fokes	parataxis
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 cunjun	advmod
21	cunjun	cunjun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ai	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
23	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ter	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 hit	case
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ter	amod
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ter	amod
27	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ai	conj
29	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dey	compound
30	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tell	obj
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	xcomp
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 see	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
34	kaze	kaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 dey	compound
35	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 see	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 de	case
39	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	42 un	punct
41	pearunce	pearunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 un	compound
42	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 de	appos
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 en	det
44	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 en	compound
45	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 un	nmod
46	all	all	ADV	_	47 kinder	advmod
47	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 creeturs	amod
48	creeturs	creetur	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 en	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fokes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	foke	present	Cunjun	kin			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Cunjun not said here		a witch		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient
3	lay	present	de minnit dey	der eyes		kin	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on it=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	present	hit's mighty hard ter	w'en dey			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dey=Recipient clause=Topic
5	see not said to happen	infinitive	w'en dey not said here	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
6	come	might	kaze dey			de	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in de=Location

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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