Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 50

One-eyed mule can't be handled on de bline side.

What happens: not handle · To what, where: One eyed mule, bline side

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: 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mule	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 One	punct
3	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mule	amod
4	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handled	nsubj:pass
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 handled	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 handled	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 handled	aux:pass
8	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	12 side	dep
11	bline	bline	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 side	amod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 handled	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 handled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not handle	can · passive		One eyed mule		bline side			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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