Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Dear Frost:, sentence 113
"Oh, whar / shill we go / w'en de great / day comes Wid de blow / in' er de trumpits / en de bang / in' er de drums / How man / y po' sin / ners'll be kotch'd / out late En fine / no latch ter de gold / en gate /"
Who acts: we, day, blow trumpits, man po, de drums · What happens: go, come, bang, be, / out · To what, where: whar, kotch, late En
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Dear Frost:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, day, blow trumpits, man po), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 whar | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 5 | / | / | SYM | _ | 6 shill | cc |
| 6 | shill | shill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whar | conj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | / | / | SYM | _ | 10 w'en | punct |
| 10 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 w'en | flat:foreign |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| 13 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | parataxis |
| 16 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | compound |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 Wid | flat:foreign |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trumpits | compound |
| 19 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 22 er | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 er | case |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 er | punct |
| 22 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 blow | conj |
| 23 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 er | flat:foreign |
| 24 | trumpits | trumpit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bang | nsubj |
| 25 | / | / | SYM | _ | 26 en | cc |
| 26 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trumpits | conj |
| 27 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bang | compound |
| 28 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | parataxis |
| 29 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 34 drums | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 drums | case |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 drums | punct |
| 32 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 de | compound |
| 33 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drums | compound |
| 34 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 / | nsubj |
| 35 | / | / | SYM | _ | 47 kotch | cc |
| 36 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 kotch | advmod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 po | compound |
| 38 | / | / | SYM | _ | 39 y | cc |
| 39 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 man | conj |
| 40 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 kotch | nsubj |
| 41 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 40 po | case |
| 42 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 kotch | nsubj |
| 43 | / | / | SYM | _ | 44 ners | cc |
| 44 | ners | ner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 sin | conj |
| 45 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 kotch | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 kotch | cop |
| 47 | kotch | kotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drums | conj |
| 48 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 / | aux |
| 49 | / | / | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bang | acl:relcl |
| 50 | out | out | ADV | _ | 49 / | advmod |
| 51 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 En | amod |
| 52 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 / | obj |
| 53 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 ter | amod |
| 54 | / | / | SYM | _ | 57 ter | cc |
| 55 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 57 ter | det |
| 56 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 ter | compound |
| 57 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 / | obj |
| 58 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 57 ter | flat:foreign |
| 59 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 ter | conj |
| 60 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 62 gate | punct |
| 61 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 gate | compound |
| 62 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 gold | appos |
| 63 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 62 gate | punct |
| 64 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | we | whar / shill | w'en obl; great property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bang in a quote | blow trumpits / en | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | man po | kotch | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | / out in a quote | would | de drums / kotch | late En | out 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/1/113/