Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 53
De proudness un a man don't count w'en his head's cold.
Who acts: De proudness un · What happens: not count · To what, where: w'en
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 (De proudness un), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 un | compound |
| 2 | proudness | proudness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 un | compound |
| 3 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 count | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 count | advmod |
| 8 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 count | obj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cold | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 head | case |
| 13 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 w'en | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | infinitive · do-support | De proudness un | w'en | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'en=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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