Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 13

Rails split 'fo' bre'kfus'll season de dinner.

Who acts: Rails · What happens: split

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 (Rails), 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	Rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 split	punct
4	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	10 dinner	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bre'kfus	punct
6	bre'kfus	bre'kfus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dinner	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dinner	aux
8	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 de	compound
9	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dinner	compound
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 split	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 split	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	Rails					for de dinner	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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