Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 32
W'y I want no mo 'feared dan you is dis minnit.
Who acts: W'y, mo, you · What happens: want, fear, dan, be · To what, where: dis minnit
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 (W'y, mo, you), 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 | W'y | W'y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 mo | det |
| 5 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dan | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mo | punct |
| 7 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dan | amod |
| 8 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 minnit | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 minnit | cop |
| 11 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 minnit | compound |
| 12 | minnit | minnit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dan | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | W'y | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | fear | participle | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | dan | no mo | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | dis minnit | 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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