Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 17
Hit's a blessin' de w'ite sow don't shake de plum-tree.
Who acts: w'ite sow · What happens: be, not shake · To what, where: blessin, plum tree
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 (w'ite sow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2306:1585): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hit | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blessin | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blessin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 blessin | det |
| 4 | blessin | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 blessin | punct |
| 6 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sow | det |
| 7 | w'ite | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sow | amod |
| 8 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shake | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shake | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 shake | advmod |
| 11 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 blessin | csubj |
| 12 | de | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 plum | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shake | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blessin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a blessin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not shake | present · do-support | the w'ite sow | the plum tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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