Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 29
I ain't soshatin' wid dem w'at lays down on de groun' en plays dead w'en dar's a free fight gwine on,' sezee.
Who acts: I, wid dem w'at, dead w'en dar · What happens: not be, lay down, be · To what, where: soshatin, de groun, free fight gwine
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 (I, wid dem w'at, dead w'en dar), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 soshatin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 soshatin | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 soshatin | advmod |
| 4 | soshatin | soshatin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lays | parataxis |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 soshatin | punct |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 w'at | amod |
| 7 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 w'at | compound |
| 8 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lays | nsubj |
| 9 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 lays | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 groun | case |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 groun | compound |
| 13 | groun | groun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lays | obl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 plays | punct |
| 15 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plays | compound |
| 16 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sezee | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dar | amod |
| 18 | w'en | w'en | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 dar | nummod |
| 19 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gwine | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gwine | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gwine | det |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gwine | amod |
| 23 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gwine | compound |
| 24 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plays | acl:relcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 plays | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ' | punct |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 plays | case |
| 28 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 groun | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | soshatin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | wid dem w'at | de groun en plays's sezee | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on groun=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | dead w'en dar | a free fight gwine | tree rules |
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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