Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 49
Rain-crow don't sing no chune, but you k'n 'pen' on 'im.
Who acts: Rain crow, you · What happens: not sing, k'n · To what, where: chune, im
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 (Rain crow, you), 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 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crow | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rain | punct |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 sing | advmod |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 chune | det |
| 8 | chune | chune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 k'n | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 k'n | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 k'n | nsubj |
| 12 | k'n | k'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obl |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 pen | punct |
| 14 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 k'n | appos |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 pen | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 im | case |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 im | punct |
| 18 | im | im | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 k'n | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sing speech: express | present · do-support | Rain crow | no chune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chune=Theme | ||||
| 2 | k'n | you | im | tree rules |
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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