Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 12

No use fer ter wait twel termorrer, De sun musn't set on yo' sorrer-- Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier, Ax de Lord fer ter fetch you up higher!

Who acts: use fer ter, sun mus, ez, Ax fer ter · What happens: wait, not set, brier, fetch up · To what, where: twel termorrer, yo, you

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use fer ter, sun mus, ez, Ax fer ter), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ter	det
2	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ter	compound
3	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ter	compound
4	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 termorrer	compound
7	termorrer	termorrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mus	punct
9	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sun	compound
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mus	compound
11	mus	mus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 termorrer	appos
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 set	advmod
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mus	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 yo	case
15	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 sorrer	punct
17	sorrer	sorrer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yo	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 brier	punct
19	Sin	Sin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brier	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Sin	case
21	ez	ez	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brier	amod
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brier	amod
23	ez	ez	X	Foreign=Yes	27 brier	nsubj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 brier	det
25	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brier	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bamboo	punct
27	brier	brier	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 yo	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Ax	punct
29	Ax	Ax	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 ter	compound
30	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Ax	flat
31	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Ax	flat
32	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ter	compound
33	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fetch	nsubj
34	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 brier	parataxis
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 fetch	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 fetch	compound:prt
37	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 fetch	xcomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	present	no use fer ter	twel termorrer			tree rules
2	not set	infinitive	sun mus not said here		yo and sorrer		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on yo=Destination
3	brier		ez				tree rules
4	fetch up	present	Ax fer ter	you		high property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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