Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 46
Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hin w'at lay de aig.
Who acts: Rooster, hin w'at · What happens: make, lie · To what, where: mo, racket
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 (Rooster, hin w'at), 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 | Rooster | rooster | 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 | _ | 5 racket | punct |
| 5 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 6 | dan | dan | X | _ | 8 hin | compound |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 dan | flat:foreign |
| 8 | hin | hin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'at | compound |
| 9 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | parataxis |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 aig | compound |
| 12 | aig | aig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Rooster | mo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mo=Product | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | hin w'at | racket | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aig=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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