Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 30

Blin' hoss don't fall w'en he follers de bit.

Who acts: hoss · What happens: not fall, foller · To what, where: de bit

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 (hoss), 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	Blin	Blin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 hoss	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Blin	case
3	hoss	hoss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	w'en	w'en	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follers	compound
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 follers	nsubj
9	follers	foller	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	obj
10	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl:unmarked
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall	present · do-support	Blin's hoss	de bit					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	foller		hoss						tree rules

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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