Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 71
Simmons ain't good twel dey 'er fros'-bit.
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: 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 | Simmons | Simmons | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 good | advmod |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dey | amod |
| 5 | twel | twel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dey | compound |
| 6 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ai | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 fros | punct |
| 8 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fros | compound |
| 9 | fros | fro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dey | appos |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 fros | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bit | punct |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fros | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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