Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 69

You'd see mo' er de mink ef he know'd whar de yard dog sleeps.

Who acts: You, er, Ef, yard dog · What happens: see, ef, know, sleep · To what, where: mo, mink ef

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, er, Ef, yard dog), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
6	er	er	X	Foreign=Yes	9 ef	nsubj
7	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	6 er	flat:foreign
8	mink	mink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ef	amod
9	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whar	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	9 ef	acl:relcl
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 whar	aux
13	whar	whar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	ccomp
14	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 yard	compound
15	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	compound
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sleeps	nsubj
17	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 whar	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	would	You	mo	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mo=Stimulus
2	ef		er		tree rules
3	know	present	Ef	mink ef not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ef=Stimulus
4	sleep	present	yard dog		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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