Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized, sentence 5
Who dat knockin' out fokes's eyes wid dat Yallerbammer sling des 'fo' dinner?
What happens: dat out · To what, where: knockin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, VII. Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 dat | nsubj |
| 2 | dat | dat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | knockin | knockin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dat | obj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 knockin | punct |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 dat | compound:prt |
| 6 | fokes | foke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 fokes | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dat | nsubj |
| 9 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dat | amod |
| 10 | dat | dat | X | _ | 2 dat | obj |
| 11 | Yallerbammer | Yallerbammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 des | compound |
| 12 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 des | compound |
| 13 | des | des | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dat | flat |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 des | punct |
| 15 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 17 dinner | case |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 dinner | punct |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dat | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dat out | present | knockin | 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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