Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 13

Hit'll pay you mo' dan politics, an' ef you stan's up like you oughter, hit'll las' longer dan a bone-fellum.

Who acts: ef · What happens: pay, up, hit · To what, where: you, longer

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ef), 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	Hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pay	aux
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pay	obj
5	mo	mo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 pay	punct
7	dan	dan	X	_	8 politics	compound
8	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 pay	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ef	det
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 ef	punct
12	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 up	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 up	nsubj
14	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 up	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 stan	case
16	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 politics	appos
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 oughter	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 oughter	nsubj
19	oughter	oughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 up	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hit	punct
21	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	parataxis
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 longer	aux
23	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 longer	obl
24	'	's	PART	_	23 las	case
25	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 hit	obj
26	dan	dan	X	Foreign=Yes	21 hit	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fellum	det
28	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fellum	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 bone	punct
30	fellum	fellum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dan	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pay	future · infinitive			you		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mo=Asset
2	up		a ef			like oughter	tree rules
3	hit	infinitive		longer			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent long=Patient dan=Result

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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