Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Legends of the Old Plantation, sentence 38
Corn-Shucking Song IV.
Who acts: Corn · What happens: shuck · To what, where: Song
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Legends of the Old Plantation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corn), 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 | Corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Corn | punct |
| 3 | Shucking | shuck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Corn | acl |
| 4 | Song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Shucking | obj |
| 5 | IV | IV | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 Song | flat |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Corn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shuck | gerund | Corn not said here | Song | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Source |
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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