Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 14
En he ain't wait fer ter say howdy, nudder.
Who acts: en, fer ter · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: howdy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (en, fer ter), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | vocative |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | cop |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 ter | amod |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 9 | howdy | howdy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nudder | punct |
| 11 | nudder | nudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 howdy | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | en | En vocative; wait property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | fer ter | howdy and nudder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent howdy=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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