Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 20

Kwishins on mule's foots done gone out er fashun.

Who acts: Kwishins · What happens: do, go out · To what, where: fashun

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 (Kwishins), 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	Kwishins	kwishin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gone	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 mule	case
3	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kwishins	nmod
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mule	case
5	foots	foot	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gone	advcl
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 gone	compound:prt
9	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 fashun	advmod
10	fashun	fashun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle	Kwishins on mule not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go out	present	Kwishins on mule	fashun					vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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