Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 34
Looks won't do ter split rails wid.
What happens: look, not ter, split · To what, where: rails wid
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 | Looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ter | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ter | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ter | aux |
| 5 | ter | ter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Looks | conj |
| 6 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ter | xcomp |
| 7 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wid | compound |
| 8 | wid | wid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 split | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | not ter | future · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | split | infinitive | rails wid | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wid=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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