Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 57

All de buzzards in de settlement 'll come to de gray mule's funer'l.

Who acts: de buzzards · What happens: come, de · To what, where: funer'l

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 buzzards), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 buzzards	det
2	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buzzards	amod
3	buzzards	buzzard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 come	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 settlement	case
5	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 settlement	amod
6	settlement	settlement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzards	nmod
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 de	mark
10	de	de	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	xcomp
11	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mule	amod
12	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 funer'l	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 mule	case
14	funer'l	funer'l	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 de	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	all de buzzards in de settlement						tree rules
2	de	to-infinitive	all de buzzards in de settlement not said here	gray mule's funer'l					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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