Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 37

Hit take two birds fer to make a nes'.

What happens: take, make · To what, where: two birds, 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: 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	Hit	hit	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 take	aux
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 birds	nummod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
5	fer	f	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 birds	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nes	det
9	nes	nes	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 nes	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take				two birds				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination
2	make	to-infinitive		a nes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nes=Product

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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