Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 23
Dogs don't bite at de front gate.
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: not bite
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 (Dogs), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bite | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bite | advmod |
| 4 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gate | amod |
| 7 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gate | amod |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bite | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bite | present · do-support | Dogs | at de front gate | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=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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