Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 3
Dar ain't nothin dat ain't spotted befo' hit begins fer ter commence.
Who acts: Dar, fer ter · What happens: not be, not spot, hit, begin, commence
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 (Dar, fer ter), 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 | Dar | Dar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nothin | nsubj |
| 2 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Vrnc Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothin | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 nothin | advmod |
| 4 | nothin | nothin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothin | obj |
| 6 | ai | ai | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 befo | compound |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 spotted | advmod |
| 8 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 befo | amod |
| 9 | befo | befo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dat | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 befo | punct |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 begins | csubj:pass |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothin | parataxis |
| 13 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 ter | amod |
| 14 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 commence | nsubj |
| 15 | commence | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 begins | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Dar | nothin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 3 | hit | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | begin | present | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | commence | present | fer ter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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