Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 25

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Who acts: Jay · What happens: not rob · To what, where: own nes

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 (Jay), 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	Jay	Jay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rob	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Jay	punct
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jay	flat
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rob	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rob	advmod
6	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nes	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nes	amod
9	nes	nes	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rob	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 nes	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rob	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rob	present · do-support	Jay	Jay's own nes					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nes=Source

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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