Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 39

Tarrypin walk fast 'nuff fer to go visitin'.

Who acts: Tarrypin · What happens: walk, go · To what, where: nuff fer, visitin

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 (Tarrypin), 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	Tarrypin	Tarrypin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walk	advmod
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fer	punct
5	nuff	nuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fer	compound
6	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fer	acl
9	visitin	visitin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obj
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 visitin	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Tarrypin	nuff fer				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	Tarrypin not said here	visitin					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visitin=Theme

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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