Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XVI. Uncle Remus Preaches to a Convert, sentence 28

But don't you levy taxes too early."

Who acts: you · What happens: not levy · To what, where: taxes

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 levy	cc
2	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 levy	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 levy	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 levy	nsubj
5	levy	levy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 levy	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 early	advmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 levy	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 levy	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 levy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not levy	infinitive · do-support	you	taxes				early property	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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