Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XIX. As a Weather Prophet, sentence 4

We all speunces dat p'overdence w'at lifts us up fum one place an' sets us down in de udder.

Who acts: We, speunces · What happens: speunce, lift up, fum, set down · To what, where: us, one place, de udder

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 (We, speunces), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 speunces	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 speunces	det
3	speunces	speunce	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lifts	nsubj
4	dat	dat	X	_	3 speunces	conj
5	p'overdence	p'overdence	X	_	4 dat	goeswith
6	w'at	w'at	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dat	flat
7	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 lifts	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 lifts	compound:prt
10	fum	fum	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lifts	xcomp
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 place	nummod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fum	obj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sets	det
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 sets	punct
15	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lifts	conj
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sets	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 sets	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 udder	case
19	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 udder	amod
20	udder	udder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sets	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lifts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speunce		We			tree rules
2	lift up	present	all speunces	us		tree rules
3	fum	infinitive	all speunces not said here	one place		tree rules
4	set down	present	all speunces not said here	us	de udder	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in udder=Destination

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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