Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 3
No use fer ter wait twel termorrer!
Who acts: use fer ter · What happens: wait · To what, where: twel termorrer
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), 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 | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | no use fer ter | twel termorrer | 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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