Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace, sentence 5
Brer Possum sorter laugh 'round de cornders un his mouf.
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 | Brer | Brer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laugh | compound |
| 2 | Possum | Possum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brer | flat |
| 3 | sorter | sorter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laugh | compound |
| 4 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 laugh | punct |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 cornders | case |
| 7 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 cornders | compound |
| 8 | cornders | cornder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laugh | nmod |
| 9 | un | un | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 mouf | compound |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouf | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouf | mouf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cornders | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laugh | 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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