Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 19
Mighty po' bee dat don't make mo' honey dan he want.
Who acts: Mighty po, sow · What happens: not make, want · To what, where: mo, honey dan
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 (Mighty po, sow), 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 | Mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 po | amod |
| 2 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dat | punct |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | compound |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 po | conj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 make | advmod |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 11 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dan | compound |
| 12 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 12 dan | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | Mighty po and bee dat | mo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mo=Product | ||||
| 2 | want | present | sow | honey dan not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dan=Theme |
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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