Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 51
Moon may shine, but a lightered knot's mighty handy.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: shine, lighter
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 (Moon), 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 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 shine | aux |
| 3 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 handy | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 handy | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 knot | det |
| 7 | lightered | lighter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 knot | amod |
| 8 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handy | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 knot | case |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 handy | amod |
| 11 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shine | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | may | Moon | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lighter | participle | 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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