Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 7

Rheumatiz don't he'p at de log-rollin'.

Who acts: Rheumatiz · What happens: not he'p · To what, where: log rollin

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 (Rheumatiz), 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	Rheumatiz	Rheumatiz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 he'p	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 he'p	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 he'p	advmod
4	he'p	he'p	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	9 rollin	case
6	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rollin	det
7	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rollin	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 log	punct
9	rollin	rollin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 he'p	obl
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 rollin	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 he'p	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not he'p	present · do-support	Rheumatiz			de log rollin			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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