Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 5

De rain fall so saf' in de long dark night, Twel you hatter hol' yo' han' for a sign, But de drizzle w'at sets de tater-slips right Is de makin' er de May-pop vine.

Who acts: De rain fall, drizzle w'at, right · What happens: hatter, set, be · To what, where: Twel, tater slips, de makin

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IX. Time Goes By Turns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (De rain fall, drizzle w'at, right), 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	3 fall	compound
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	compound
3	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hatter	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 saf	advmod
5	saf	saf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nmod
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 saf	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 night	case
8	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	11 night	advmod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saf	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Twel	punct
13	Twel	Twel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hatter	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hatter	nsubj
15	hatter	hatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	hol	hol	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hatter	obj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 han	punct
18	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 han	compound
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 han	punct
20	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hol	appos
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 han	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 sign	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sign	det
24	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hatter	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sets	punct
26	But	but	CCONJ	_	30 sets	cc
27	de	de	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 w'at	det
28	drizzle	drizzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 w'at	compound
29	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sets	nsubj
30	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hatter	parataxis
31	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	34 slips	advmod
32	tater	tater	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 slips	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 tater	punct
34	slips	slip	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sets	obj
35	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 makin	nsubj
36	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 makin	cop
37	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 makin	amod
38	makin	makin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sets	parataxis
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 makin	punct
40	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 makin	conj
41	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 er	appos
42	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 de	flat
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 vine	punct
44	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 vine	compound
45	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 de	appos
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 hatter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hatter	present	De rain fall saf in long dark night	Twel	for a sign	tree rules
2	set	present	de drizzle w'at	tater slips		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient slip=Result
3	is a	present	right	de makin and er		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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