Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, Plantation Proverbs, sentence 61
Hit takes a bee fer ter git de sweetness out'n de hoar-houn' blossom.
Who acts: Hit · What happens: take · To what, where: bee fer
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Plantation Proverbs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fer | det |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fer | compound |
| 5 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 6 | ter | ter | ADP | _ | 7 git | case |
| 7 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| 8 | de | de | ADP | _ | 10 out'n | case |
| 9 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 out'n | compound |
| 10 | out'n | out'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 out'n | flat:foreign |
| 12 | hoar | hoar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 houn | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoar | punct |
| 14 | houn | houn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blossom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 houn | case |
| 16 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hit | a bee fer | ter git; de sweetness out'n | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fer=Theme blossom=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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