Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 6

Hit's a mighty pashent han', but de days is but few, W'en Satun, he'll come a demandin' un his due, En de stiff-neck sinners 'll be smotin' all fru- Oh, you better git ready for de mornin'!

Who acts: Hit, few W'en, all · What happens: be, come, git · To what, where: mighty pashent han, un

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, few W'en, all), 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 han	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 han	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 han	det
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 han	amod
5	pashent	pashent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 han	amod
6	han	han	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	',	',	PUNCT	_	6 han	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 days	cc
9	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	10 days	nmod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 han	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 smotin	cop
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 smotin	cc
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 W'en	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 few	punct
15	W'en	W'en	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 smotin	nsubj
16	Satun	Satun	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 W'en	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 W'en	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 demandin	det
22	demandin	demandin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 un	nmod:poss
23	'	's	PART	_	22 demandin	case
24	un	un	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 un	nmod:poss
26	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 En	punct
28	En	En	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 smotin	nsubj
29	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	28 En	flat:foreign
30	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 neck	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 stiff	punct
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sinners	compound
33	sinners	sinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 smotin	nsubj
34	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 smotin	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 smotin	cop
36	smotin	smotin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 han	conj
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	36 smotin	punct
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 git	nsubj
39	fru	fru	X	Foreign=Yes	38 all	flat:foreign
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 fru	punct
41	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	45 git	discourse
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Oh	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 git	nsubj
44	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 git	amod
45	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 smotin	parataxis
46	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 git	amod
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 mornin	case
48	de	de	PUNCT	_	49 mornin	punct
49	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ready	obl
50	'	'	PUNCT	_	49 mornin	punct
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 han	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Hit	a mighty pashent han but days de		tree rules
2	come	future	Hit	a demandin's un	due property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location un=Theme
3	is	present	few W'en		smotin property	tree rules
4	git		all			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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