Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 42
Corn makes mo' at de mill dan it does in de crib.
Who acts: Corn · What happens: make, do · To what, where: mo, de mill dan, de crib
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 (Corn), 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 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dan | case |
| 6 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dan | compound |
| 7 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dan | compound |
| 8 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 does | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dan | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 crib | case |
| 12 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crib | amod |
| 13 | crib | crib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 does | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Corn | mo | de mill dan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mo=Product | |||
| 2 | do | present | corn | de mill dan not said here | de crib | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dan=Eventuality |
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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