Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, X. a Case of Measles, sentence 8

Much mo' an' I wouldn't make bread by wukkin' fer't, let 'lone follerin' up a passel er boys an' gals all over keration.

Who acts: I · What happens: not make, let · To what, where: bread, lone follerin, keration

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, X. a Case of Measles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mo	amod
2	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 make	det
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mo	parataxis
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 wukkin	case
12	wukkin	wukkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obl
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 fer't	punct
14	fer't	fer't	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wukkin	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 make	conj
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 follerin	punct
18	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 follerin	amod
19	follerin	follerin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 follerin	punct
21	up	up	ADP	_	25 boys	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boys	det
23	passel	passel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 er	compound
24	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boys	compound
25	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 gals	det
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	28 gals	punct
28	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 boys	conj
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 keration	advmod
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 keration	case
31	keration	keration	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	would	I	bread				by wukkin and fer't	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product
2	let	infinitive	I not said here	lone follerin		keration		up a er boys and a gals	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follerin=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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