Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 1
OH, whar shill we go w'en de great day comes, Wid de blowin' er de trumpits en de bangin' er de drums?
Who acts: we, whar shill, Wid de blowin · What happens: go, come, en · To what, where: w'en, bangin drums
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, I. Revival Hymn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, whar shill, Wid de blowin), 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 | OH | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 shill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 OH | punct |
| 3 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shill | amod |
| 4 | shill | shill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shill | acl:relcl |
| 7 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 go | obl |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 w'en | flat |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 w'en | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blowin | punct |
| 13 | Wid | Wid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 blowin | compound |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 blowin | compound |
| 15 | blowin | blowin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 en | nsubj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 blowin | punct |
| 17 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 en | nsubj |
| 18 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 er | flat:foreign |
| 19 | trumpits | trumpit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 en | compound |
| 20 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| 21 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 bangin | compound |
| 22 | bangin | bangin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drums | compound |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 bangin | punct |
| 24 | er | er | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 bangin | conj |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 er | flat:foreign |
| 26 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 en | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | we | w'en | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | whar shill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | en | Wid de blowin | bangin drums | 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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