Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 4
Smoove away sin's frown-- Retch up en git de crown, W'at de Lord will fetch in de mornin'!
Who acts: W'at, sin, de · What happens: retch up, fetch, frown, crown · To what, where: en git, 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 (W'at, sin, de), 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 | Smoove | Smoove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 frown | nsubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 frown | advmod |
| 3 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frown | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sin | case |
| 5 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 Retch | punct |
| 7 | Retch | retch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 frown | appos |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 Retch | compound:prt |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | compound |
| 10 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Retch | obj |
| 11 | de | de | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 crown | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Retch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 W'at | punct |
| 14 | W'at | W'at | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fetch | nsubj |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 W'at | flat |
| 16 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 W'at | flat |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fetch | aux |
| 18 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frown | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mornin | case |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 mornin | compound |
| 21 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fetch | obl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 fetch | punct |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 frown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retch up | infinitive | en git | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fetch | future | W'at | de mornin | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | frown | sin | nom frown «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | crown | de | nom crown «communication 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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