Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black, sentence 11
Fokes dunner w'at bin yit, let 'lone w'at gwinter be.
What happens: let
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXXIII. Why the Negro Is Black. 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 | Fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yit | nsubj |
| 2 | dunner | dun | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 yit | amod |
| 3 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yit | compound |
| 4 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yit | compound |
| 5 | yit | yit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 yit | conj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 9 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gwinter | amod |
| 10 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gwinter | compound |
| 11 | gwinter | gwinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 be | nsubj |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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