Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 18

Winter grape sour, whedder you kin reach 'im or not.

Who acts: Winter grape · What happens: kin · To what, where: reach

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 (Winter grape), 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	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grape	compound
2	grape	grape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kin	nsubj
3	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grape	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whedder	punct
5	whedder	whedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grape	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 kin	nsubj
7	kin	kin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kin	obj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 im	punct
10	im	im	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 not	cc
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 reach	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kin	present	Winter grape and whedder	reach and im					tree rules

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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