Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience, sentence 2
"How dis you don't come down ter chu'ch no mo', Brer Remus?
Who acts: dis · What happens: not come down · To what, where: chu'ch
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Uncle Remus's Church Experience. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dis), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dis | advmod |
| 3 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 come | advmod |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | ter | t | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 chu'ch | advmod |
| 10 | chu'ch | chu'ch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 mo | det |
| 12 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 12 mo | dep |
| 14 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Remus | compound |
| 15 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mo | appos |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come down in a quote | present · do-support | dis | chu'ch | no mo obl; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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