Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 10
Oh, you nee'nter be a stoppin' en a lookin'; Ef you fool wid ole Satun you'll git took in; You'll hang on de aidge en get shook in, Ef you keep on a stoppin' en a lookin'.
Who acts: you, nee'nter, Ef · What happens: nee'nter, be, fool, take in, hang, get · To what, where: en, wid ole Satun, shook, de aidge en, Ef
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 (you, nee'nter, Ef), 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 nee'nter | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 nee'nter | nsubj |
| 4 | nee'nter | nee'nter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 en | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stoppin | det |
| 7 | stoppin | stoppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 stoppin | case |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lookin | det |
| 11 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 lookin | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fool | punct |
| 14 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fool | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fool | nsubj |
| 16 | fool | fool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 en | conj |
| 17 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Satun | amod |
| 18 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Satun | amod |
| 19 | Satun | Satun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fool | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | aux |
| 22 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fool | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 took | compound:prt |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 hang | punct |
| 26 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 hang | nsubj |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hang | aux |
| 28 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 en | parataxis |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 en | case |
| 30 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 32 en | compound |
| 31 | aidge | aidge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 en | compound |
| 32 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obl |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hang | conj |
| 34 | shook | shook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 keep | punct |
| 37 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | obl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 keep | nsubj |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hang | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 en | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 stoppin | det |
| 42 | stoppin | stoppin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 en | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 42 stoppin | case |
| 44 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | obl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 lookin | det |
| 46 | lookin | lookin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 en | appos |
| 47 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 lookin | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nee'nter | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | nee'nter | a stoppin's en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fool | present | Ef | wid ole Satun | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satun=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take in | future | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hang | future | You | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | get | present | You not said here | shook | de aidge en | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shook=Theme on en=Source | |||
| 7 | keep | present | you | Ef | a stoppin's en | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on en=Location |
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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