Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 11

He's a gwineter fix hit up so dat dere won't be so much worriment 'mong de w'ite fokes 'bout de kinder wedder w'at falls to dere lot."

Who acts: w'ite · What happens: hit up, not be, fall · To what, where: dat, worriment mong

This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XIX. As a Weather Prophet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (w'ite), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hit	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gwineter	det
4	gwineter	gwineter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj:pass
5	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hit	aux:pass
6	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 mong	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hit	compound:prt
8	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
9	dat	dat	ADV	Typo=Yes	15 much	advmod
10	dere	dere	X	_	9 dat	goeswith
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 much	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 much	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 much	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 worriment	amod
16	worriment	worriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mong	compound
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 mong	punct
18	mong	mong	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	18 mong	flat:foreign
20	w'ite	w'ite	X	Foreign=Yes	28 falls	nsubj
21	fokes	foke	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bout	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 fokes	case
23	bout	bout	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 w'ite	obj
24	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	20 w'ite	flat
25	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 w'at	amod
26	wedder	wedder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 w'at	compound
27	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 w'ite	flat
28	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mong	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 lot	case
30	dere	dere	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lot	compound
31	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 mong	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 mong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit up	present · passive		dat		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	not is	future			dat, much property	tree rules
3	fall	present	w'ite	worriment mong not said here	to dere lot result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mong=Extent to lot=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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