Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache, sentence 24
But de ache don't stay long.
What happens: ache, not stay
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VI. Uncle Remus With the Toothache. 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 ache | cc |
| 2 | de | de | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ache | aux |
| 3 | ache | ache | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stay | advmod |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ache | conj |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ache | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ache | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||||
| 2 | not stay | present · do-support | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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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