Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, V. a Confession, sentence 6

Isn't it just as honest and just as regular to sell pies as it is to do any other kind of work?"

Who acts: flingin · What happens: not be, be, sell · To what, where: pies

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, V. a Confession. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flingin), 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 honest	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 honest	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 honest	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 honest	advmod
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 regular	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 regular	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 regular	advmod
10	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 honest	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 regular	xcomp
13	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sell	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 do	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sell	advcl
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 kind	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kind	amod
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 work	case
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kind	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 honest	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 honest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	flingin		honest property	tree rules
2	be		flingin not said here			tree rules
3	sell	to-infinitive	flingin not said here	pies		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Theme
4	is	present	flingin		do property	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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