Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IX. Time Goes By Turns, sentence 8

Hump yo'se'f ter de load en fergit de distress, En dem w'at stan's by ter scoff, For de harder de pullin', de longer de res', En de bigger de feed in de troff.

Who acts: En · What happens: feed · To what, where: harder de pullin, de troff

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 (En), 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	Hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ter	compound
2	yo'se'f	yo'se'f	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ter	compound
3	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 load	compound
4	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	5 load	compound
5	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fergit	compound
6	en	en	X	Foreign=Yes	7 fergit	compound
7	fergit	fergit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 harder	nsubj
8	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 distress	amod
9	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fergit	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 w'at	punct
11	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 w'at	compound
12	dem	dem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'at	compound
13	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fergit	conj
14	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 w'at	nmod
15	's	's	PART	_	14 stan	case
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 scoff	case
17	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scoff	amod
18	scoff	scoff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 w'at	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 de	punct
20	For	for	ADP	_	21 de	case
21	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fergit	conj
22	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 pullin	amod
23	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	24 pullin	compound
24	pullin	pullin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	',	',	PUNCT	_	24 pullin	punct
26	de	de	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 En	advmod
28	de	de	ADP	_	31 En	case
29	res	re	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 En	nmod:poss
30	',	',	PART	_	29 res	case
31	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 feed	nsubj
32	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 En	dep
33	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 En	amod
34	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	31 En	flat:foreign
35	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 pullin	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 troff	case
37	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	38 troff	compound
38	troff	troff	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 pullin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	res's En	harder de pullin not said here		de troff			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pullin=Value in troff=Location

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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