Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 6

Who's a gwine fer ter stan' stiff-kneed en bol'.

What happens: be, knee · To what, where: gwine fer

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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fer	det
4	gwine	gwine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fer	compound
5	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	ter	ter	ADP	_	7 stan	case
7	stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fer	nmod
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 bol	punct
9	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kneed	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 stiff	punct
11	kneed	knee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bol	amod
12	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bol	compound
13	bol	bol	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fer	appos
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 bol	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a gwine fer				ter stan	tree rules
2	knee	participle							vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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