Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 30
"Den Brer Possum grin en laugh fit to kill hisse'f. "'
Who acts: Den en · What happens: be, laugh, kill · To what, where: Den en, hisse'f
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 (Den en), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Den | punct |
| 2 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 en | compound |
| 3 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 4 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Den | flat |
| 5 | grin | grin | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 en | cop |
| 6 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laugh | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fit | xcomp |
| 11 | hisse'f | hisse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Den en | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | present | Den en | fit property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Den en not said here | hisse'f | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hisse'f=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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