Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 27

Meat fried 'fo' day won't las' twel night.

What happens: fry · To what, where: Meat

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: 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	Meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	nsubj
2	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Meat	acl
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 fo	punct
4	fo	for	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 day	case
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 fo	punct
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fried	obl
7	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 night	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 night	advmod
9	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 night	nmod:poss
10	'	's	PART	_	9 las	case
11	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	compound
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	participle		Meat not said here			day		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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