Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 33

Black-snake know de way ter de hin nes'.

Who acts: Black snake, ter · What happens: know, ne · To what, where: de way

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 (Black snake, ter), 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	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snake	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Black	punct
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 way	compound
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	obj
7	ter	ter	X	Foreign=Yes	10 nes	nsubj
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	7 ter	flat:foreign
9	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nes	compound
10	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	parataxis
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 nes	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Black snake	de way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
2	ne		ter						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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