Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 8

You better come now ef you comin'-- Ole Satun is loose en a bummin'-- De wheels er distruckshun is a hummin'-- Oh, come long, sinner, ef you comin'!

Who acts: You, Ole, distruckshun · What happens: come, comin, be · To what, where: loose en, hummin

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 (You, Ole, distruckshun), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 come	advmod
5	ef	ef	ADV	_	7 comin	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 comin	nsubj
7	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 comin	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 en	punct
10	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 en	nsubj
11	Satun	Satun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ole	flat
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 en	cop
13	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 en	amod
14	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bummin	det
16	bummin	bummin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 en	appos
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 bummin	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 wheels	punct
19	De	De	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 wheels	compound
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bummin	conj
21	er	e	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 wheels	advmod
22	distruckshun	distruckshun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hummin	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hummin	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hummin	det
25	hummin	hummin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 er	nsubj
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 hummin	punct
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 come	discourse
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Oh	punct
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hummin	conj
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 come	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sinner	punct
33	sinner	sinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hummin	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ef	punct
35	ef	ef	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 comin	compound
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 comin	nsubj
37	comin	comin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hummin	conj
38	'	'	PUNCT	_	37 comin	punct
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	You		now	well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	comin		you				tree rules
3	is a	present	Ole	loose en			tree rules
4	is a	present	distruckshun	a hummin and sinner and ef comin			tree rules
5	come	infinitive	distruckshun not said here			long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	comin		you				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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