Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 11
De time is right now, en dish yer's de place-- Let de sun er salvashun shine squar' in yo' face; Fight de battles er de Lord, fight soon en fight late, En you'll allers fine a latch ter de golden gate.
Who acts: De time, Fight, you · What happens: be, let, battle, fight, fine · To what, where: de place, de sun, yo, de Lord, en fight, latch ter
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 (De time, Fight, you), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 time | compound |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 place | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dish | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dish | compound |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nsubj |
| 9 | yer | yer | PRON | Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 yer | case |
| 11 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 14 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | parataxis |
| 15 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 sun | compound |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Let | obj |
| 17 | er | er | X | _ | 20 squar | compound |
| 18 | salvashun | salvashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shine | compound |
| 19 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 squar | compound |
| 20 | squar | squar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Let | obj |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 squar | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 yo | case |
| 23 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Let | obl |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 face | punct |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 yo | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 battles | punct |
| 27 | Fight | Fight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 battles | nsubj |
| 28 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Fight | flat |
| 29 | battles | battle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | parataxis |
| 30 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 Lord | advmod |
| 31 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Lord | compound |
| 32 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 battles | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fight | punct |
| 34 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 battles | conj |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 fight | advmod |
| 36 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fight | compound |
| 37 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fight | obl |
| 38 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 fight | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 En | punct |
| 40 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 place | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 fine | nsubj |
| 42 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 fine | aux |
| 43 | allers | aller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fine | nsubj |
| 44 | fine | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 ter | det |
| 46 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ter | compound |
| 47 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fine | obj |
| 48 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 47 ter | flat:foreign |
| 49 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 gate | amod |
| 50 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 ter | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | De time | de place and En | now | 's yer | tree rules | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | de sun | yo and face | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient squar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | battle | present | Fight | de Lord | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fight | present | Fight not said here | en fight | late property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | fine | future | you | a latch ter and golden gate | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ter=Recipient |
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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