Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 59
Termorrow may be de carridge-driver's day for ploughin'.
Who acts: Termorrow · What happens: be · To what, where: de day
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 (Termorrow), 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 | Termorrow | termorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 day | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 day | cop |
| 4 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 5 | carridge | carridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driver | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 carridge | punct |
| 7 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 driver | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ploughin | case |
| 11 | ploughin | ploughin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ploughin | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | Termorrow | carridge driver's de day | for ploughin | 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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