Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 27
Plenty fer eat an' not much fer wuk."
Who acts: Plenty fer · What happens: eat · To what, where: fer wuk
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plenty fer), 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 | Plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fer | compound |
| 2 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wuk | det |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fer | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fer | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 fer | advmod |
| 8 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 wuk | amod |
| 9 | wuk | wuk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Plenty fer | a fer wuk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wuk=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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