Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 2
How many po' sinners'll be kotched out late En fin' no latch ter de golden gate?
What happens: kotch out · To what, where: sinners
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 po | amod |
| 3 | po | po | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fin | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 kotched | punct |
| 5 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kotched | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 kotched | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 kotched | aux:pass |
| 8 | kotched | kotch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fin | amod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 kotched | compound:prt |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fin | amod |
| 11 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fin | compound |
| 12 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fin | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 ter | det |
| 15 | latch | latch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gate | compound |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 ter | flat:foreign |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gate | amod |
| 19 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fin | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 fin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kotch out | future · passive | sinners | 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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