Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 43
Good luck say: "Op'n yo' mouf en shet yo' eyes."
Who acts: Good luck · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good luck), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 luck | amod |
| 2 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 yo | punct |
| 6 | Op'n | Op'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | compound |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | compound |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 yo | punct |
| 9 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | compound |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yo | compound |
| 11 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yo | compound |
| 12 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 yo | punct |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Good luck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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