Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, I. Revival Hymn, sentence 9
De song er salvashun is a mighty sweet song, En de Pairidise win' blow fur en blow strong, En Aberham's bosom, hit's saft en hit's wide, En right dar's de place whar de sinners oughter hide!
Who acts: song er salvashun, En, en hit, En Aberham · What happens: be, win, blow, whar, bosom · To what, where: mighty sweet song, fur
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 (song er salvashun, En, en hit, En Aberham), 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 song | compound |
| 2 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 salvashun | compound |
| 3 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 salvashun | compound |
| 4 | salvashun | salvashun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 song | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 song | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 song | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 En | punct |
| 11 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 win | nsubj |
| 12 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 En | flat |
| 13 | Pairidise | Pairidise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 En | flat |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 song | parataxis |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 blow | punct |
| 16 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 win | conj |
| 17 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blow | obj |
| 18 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blow | amod |
| 19 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blow | obj |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blow | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bosom | punct |
| 22 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Aberham | compound |
| 23 | Aberham | Aberham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Aberham | case |
| 25 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 song | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 whar | punct |
| 27 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 whar | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 hit | case |
| 29 | saft | saft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 whar | amod |
| 30 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hit | compound |
| 31 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 whar | nsubj |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 hit | case |
| 33 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 whar | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 whar | punct |
| 35 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 dar | compound |
| 36 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 dar | amod |
| 37 | dar | dar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 whar | compound |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 dar | case |
| 39 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 place | amod |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 whar | compound |
| 41 | whar | whar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bosom | appos |
| 42 | de | de | ADP | _ | 43 sinners | case |
| 43 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 whar | nmod |
| 44 | oughter | ought | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 45 hide | amod |
| 45 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sinners | conj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | song er salvashun | a mighty sweet song and En Aberham's bosom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | present | En | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blow | infinitive | En not said here | fur | strong property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent fur=Beneficiary blow=Product | |||
| 4 | whar | en hit | de sinners and oughter hide | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bosom | En Aberham | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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