Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 5
W'en de nashuns er de earf is a stan'in all aroun, Who's a gwineter be choosen fer ter w'ar de glory-crown?
Who acts: de earf · What happens: be, choosen · To what, where: stan'in, aroun
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 earf), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nashuns | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 W'en | flat:foreign |
| 3 | nashuns | nashun | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | er | e | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 nashuns | advmod |
| 5 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 earf | compound |
| 6 | earf | earf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stan'in | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stan'in | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stan'in | det |
| 9 | stan'in | stan'in | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 er | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 aroun | det |
| 11 | aroun | aroun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stan'in | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 choosen | punct |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 choosen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 choosen | aux |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gwineter | det |
| 16 | gwineter | gwineter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choosen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 choosen | aux:pass |
| 18 | choosen | choosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 aroun | acl:relcl |
| 19 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 w'ar | amod |
| 20 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 w'ar | compound |
| 21 | w'ar | w'ar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choosen | obj |
| 22 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 crown | amod |
| 23 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crown | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 glory | punct |
| 25 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 w'ar | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 nashuns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | de earf | a stan'in | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choosen | present · passive | all aroun | 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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