Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, A Story of the War, sentence 117

Dey wa'n't no rain, but de wet des sifted down; mighty raw day.

What happens: sift down

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, A Story of the War. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Dey	Dey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rain	nsubj
2	wa'	wa'	INTJ	_	5 rain	discourse
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 rain	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 rain	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sifted	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sifted	cc
8	de	de	ADP	_	10 des	case
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 des	amod
10	des	des	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sifted	obl
11	sifted	sift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rain	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sifted	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
15	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rain	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sift down	participle						de wet des	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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