Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 3

Look up en look aroun', Fling yo' burden on de groun', Hit's a gittin' mighty close on ter mornin'!

Who acts: you, de groun · What happens: look up, look, be · To what, where: en, aroun Fling yo, mighty close, ter 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 (you, de groun), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
5	aroun	aroun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yo	compound
6	',	',	PART	_	5 aroun	dep
7	Fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yo	compound
8	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obj
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 burden	punct
10	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yo	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 groun	case
12	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	13 groun	compound
13	groun	groun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nsubj
14	',	',	PART	_	13 groun	dep
15	Hit	Hit	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 close	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 close	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gittin	det
18	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 gittin	case
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 close	amod
21	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 mornin	case
23	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mornin	compound
24	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	nmod
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 close	punct
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here	en		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Attribute
2	look	infinitive	you not said here	aroun Fling yo and burden		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yo=Attribute
3	is a	present	de groun	a gittin's mighty close	ter mornin	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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