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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIII. His Practical View of Things, sentence 8

In de winder glass dar you kin see de flags a flyin', an' Jacob's lather is dar, an' dar's writin' on de pane w'at no man can't read--leas'wise dey ain't none read it yit."

Who acts: you, lather, man, none · What happens: kin, see, be, not read · To what, where: de glass dar, de flags, de pane w'at, lather

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIII. His Practical View of Things. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lather, man, none), 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

caseamodcompoundcompoundoblnsubjxcompcompoundobjdetconjpunctdetpunctnmod:posscasensubjcopamodpunctdetpunctnmod:posscaseappospunctcaseamodcompoundnmoddetnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclpunctcompoundcompoundparataxisadvmodnsubjacl:relclobjobjpunctpunctrootInADPdeADJwinderNOUNglassNOUNdarNOUNyouPRONkinVERBseeVERBdeNOUNflagsNOUNaDETflyinNOUN',PUNCTanDET'PUNCTJacobPROPN'sPARTlatherNOUNisAUXdarADJ,PUNCTanDET'PUNCTdarNOUN'sPARTwritinNOUN'PUNCTonADPdeADJpaneNOUNw'atNOUNnoDETmanNOUNcaAUXn'tPARTreadVERB--PUNCTleas'wiseNOUNdeyNOUNaiNOUNn'tPARTnonePRONreadVERBitPRONyitNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_5 darcase
2dedeADJDegree=Pos5 daramod
3winderwinderNOUNNumber=Sing4 glasscompound
4glassglassNOUNNumber=Sing5 darcompound
5dardarNOUNNumber=Sing7 kinobl
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 kinnsubj
7kinkinVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 kinxcomp
9dedeNOUNNumber=Sing10 flagscompound
10flagsflagNOUNNumber=Plur8 seeobj
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 flyindet
12flyinflyinNOUNNumber=Sing10 flagsconj
13',',PUNCT_26 writinpunct
14anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 writindet
15''PUNCT_20 darpunct
16JacobJacobPROPNNumber=Sing18 lathernmod:poss
17's'sPART_16 Jacobcase
18latherlatherNOUNNumber=Sing20 darnsubj
19isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 darcop
20dardarADJDegree=Pos26 writinamod
21,,PUNCT_26 writinpunct
22anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 dardet
23''PUNCT_24 darpunct
24dardarNOUNNumber=Sing26 writinnmod:poss
25's'sPART_24 darcase
26writinwritinNOUNNumber=Sing12 flyinappos
27''PUNCT_26 writinpunct
28ononADP_31 w'atcase
29dedeADJDegree=Pos31 w'atamod
30panepaneNOUNNumber=Sing31 w'atcompound
31w'atw'atNOUNNumber=Sing26 writinnmod
32nonoDETPronType=Neg33 mandet
33manmanNOUNNumber=Sing36 readnsubj
34cacanAUXVerbForm=Fin36 readaux
35n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg36 readadvmod
36readreadVERBVerbForm=Inf31 w'atacl:relcl
37----PUNCT_40 aipunct
38leas'wiseleas'wiseNOUNNumber=Sing39 deycompound
39deydeyNOUNNumber=Sing40 aicompound
40aiaiNOUNNumber=Sing26 writinparataxis
41n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg43 readadvmod
42nonenonePRONPronType=Neg43 readnsubj
43readreadVERBVerbForm=Inf40 aiacl:relcl
44ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 readobj
45yityitNOUNNumber=Sing43 readobj
46..PUNCT_7 kinpunct
47""PUNCT_7 kinpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1kinpresentyoude glass dartree rules
2seeinfinitiveyou not said herede flags and a flyinvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus
3ispresentJacob's latherdar propertytree rules
4not readcanno mande pane w'at not said herevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w'at=Topic
5not readinfinitivenonelathervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient yit=Topic

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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