Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 2
Hit's a mighty long ways up de mountain side, En dey ain't no place fer dem sinners fer ter hide, En dey ain't no place whar sin kin abide, W'en de Lord shill come in de mornin'!
Who acts: Hit, fer ter, place, mighty long ways · What happens: be, hide, not be, come in · To what, where: mighty long ways, dem sinners, whar sin kin, de mornin
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, II. Camp-meeting Song *. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hit, fer ter, place, mighty long ways), 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 | Hit | Hit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ways | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ways | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ways | amod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ways | amod |
| 6 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 come | nsubj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 ways | compound:prt |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 side | dep |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | compound |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ai | punct |
| 12 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ai | compound |
| 13 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ai | compound |
| 14 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | parataxis |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sinners | advmod |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 sinners | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fer | compound |
| 18 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dem | compound |
| 19 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sinners | compound |
| 20 | sinners | sinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ai | nmod |
| 21 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 ter | amod |
| 22 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hide | nsubj |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sinners | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ai | punct |
| 25 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | compound |
| 26 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ai | compound |
| 27 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | parataxis |
| 28 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 kin | advmod |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 kin | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kin | nsubj |
| 31 | whar | whar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kin | amod |
| 32 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kin | compound |
| 33 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | nmod |
| 34 | abide | abide | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 kin | cop |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 W'en | punct |
| 36 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ways | nmod |
| 37 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 W'en | flat |
| 38 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 W'en | flat |
| 39 | shill | shill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 W'en | appos |
| 40 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | in | in | ADV | _ | 40 come | advmod |
| 42 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 43 mornin | compound |
| 43 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 come | obl |
| 44 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 mornin | punct |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Hit | a mighty long ways | W'en nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hide | present | fer ter | no dem sinners not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sinner=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | place | no whar sin kin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in | present | a mighty long ways | de mornin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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