Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 11
Crow en corn can't grow in de same fiel'.
Who acts: you, corn · What happens: crow, not grow · To what, where: en, de same fiel
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, corn), 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 | Crow | crow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Crow | obj |
| 3 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grow | advmod |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Crow | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fiel | case |
| 8 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fiel | amod |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fiel | amod |
| 10 | fiel | fiel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fiel | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | imperative | you not said here | en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not grow | can | corn | de same fiel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fiel=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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