Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 4
De sun mus'n't set on yo' sorrer, Sin's ez sharp ez a bamboo-brier- Oh, Lord! fetch de mo'ners up higher!
Who acts: De sun · What happens: not set · To what, where: ez sharp Lord, yo
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 sun), 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 sun | compound |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj |
| 3 | mus' | mus' | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 yo | case |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorrer | punct |
| 9 | sorrer | sorrer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 11 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sin | case |
| 13 | ez | ez | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Lord | amod |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Lord | amod |
| 15 | ez | ez | ADV | _ | 23 Lord | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 brier | det |
| 17 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brier | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bamboo | punct |
| 19 | brier | brier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Lord | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Oh | punct |
| 21 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 23 Lord | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 fetch | punct |
| 25 | fetch | fetch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mo'ners | compound |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 fetch | flat:foreign |
| 27 | mo'ners | mo'ner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 higher | nsubj |
| 28 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 higher | advmod |
| 29 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 set | parataxis |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not set | De sun | Sin's ez sharp Lord | yo and sorrer | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on yo=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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