Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 39
I don't mine fightin', Brer Coon, no mo' dan you duz,' sezee, 'but I declar' ter grashus ef I kin stan' ticklin'.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not mine, duz, ef, kin · To what, where: Brer, dan, stan
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, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mine | advmod |
| 4 | mine | mine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | fightin | fightin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | nmod:desc |
| 6 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 5 fightin | dep |
| 7 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | obj |
| 8 | Coon | Coon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dan | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 mo | det |
| 11 | mo | mo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 mo | case |
| 13 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | appos |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 duz | nsubj |
| 15 | duz | duz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dan | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 18 | sezee | sezee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Brer | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 sezee | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 ef | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 ef | nsubj |
| 23 | declar | declar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ef | amod |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 ef | punct |
| 25 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grashus | compound |
| 26 | grashus | grashus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ef | compound |
| 27 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 kin | nsubj |
| 29 | kin | kin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ef | acl:relcl |
| 30 | stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 kin | obj |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 ticklin | punct |
| 32 | ticklin | ticklin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stan | appos |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 ticklin | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mine | present · do-support | I | Brer fightin | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | duz | present | you | no mo's dan not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ef | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kin | present | I | stan | 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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