Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, 2.a Plantation Serenade, sentence 2

De raccoon he's a cu'us man, He never walk twel dark, En nuthin' never 'sturbs his mine, Twel he hear ole Bringer bark.

Who acts: De raccoon, raccoon, Twel · What happens: be, not walk, not sturb, hear · To what, where: cu'us man, twel, En nuthin, ole Bringer bark

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, 2.a Plantation Serenade. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De raccoon, raccoon, Twel), 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	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 raccoon	compound
2	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	cu'us	cu'us	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walk	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walk	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 walk	advmod
11	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	acl:relcl
12	twel	twel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walk	obj
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walk	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nuthin	punct
15	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 nuthin	compound
16	nuthin	nuthin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sturbs	obl
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 never	punct
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 sturbs	advmod
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 never	punct
20	sturbs	sturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mine	nmod:poss
22	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sturbs	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
24	Twel	Twel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hear	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sturbs	conj
27	ole	ole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bark	amod
28	Bringer	Bringer	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 bark	compound
29	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	De raccoon	a cu'us man		tree rules
2	not walk	infinitive	raccoon	twel	dark property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme twel=Trajectory
3	not sturb	present		En nuthin		tree rules
4	hear	infinitive	Twel	ole Bringer bark		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bark=Stimulus

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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