Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 26
"Den Brer Possum git mighty mad.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | list |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mad | amod |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 git | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Den | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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