Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 67
Don't 'sput wid de squinch-owl.
Who acts: you · What happens: not ' · To what, where: sput
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ' | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ' | advmod |
| 3 | ' | ' | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sput | sput | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ' | obj |
| 5 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owl | amod |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owl | amod |
| 7 | squinch | squinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owl | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 squinch | punct |
| 9 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ' | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ' | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ' | imperative · do-support | you not said here | sput | 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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