Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 7
Look up en set yo' face To'ds de green hills of grace 'Fo' de sun rises up in de mornin'-- Oh, you better change yo' base, Hits yo' soul's las' race For de glory dat's a comin' in de mornin'!
Who acts: you, en set, de sun, yo, las · What happens: look up, to'd, rise up, yo, hit, be · To what, where: de mornin, comin
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, en set, de sun, yo), 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 | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 To'ds | nsubj |
| 5 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 To'ds | nsubj |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 To'ds | punct |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 To'ds | compound |
| 8 | To'ds | to'd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 9 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 To'ds | flat:foreign |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hills | amod |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 To'ds | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grace | case |
| 13 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hills | nmod |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fo | punct |
| 15 | Fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 19 rises | mark |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fo | punct |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 sun | compound |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rises | nsubj |
| 19 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 To'ds | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rises | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mornin | case |
| 22 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 mornin | compound |
| 23 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rises | obl |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 mornin | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 yo | punct |
| 26 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 31 yo | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Oh | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 yo | nsubj |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 yo | amod |
| 30 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 yo | compound |
| 31 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 To'ds | conj |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 yo | punct |
| 33 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 yo | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Hits | punct |
| 35 | Hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 36 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 comin | nsubj |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 race | punct |
| 38 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 las | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 soul | case |
| 40 | las | la | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 race | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 40 las | case |
| 42 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 comin | nsubj |
| 43 | For | for | ADP | _ | 46 dat | case |
| 44 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dat | amod |
| 45 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 dat | compound |
| 46 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 race | nmod |
| 47 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 comin | cop |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 comin | det |
| 49 | comin | comin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Hits | ccomp |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 comin | punct |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 mornin | case |
| 52 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 53 mornin | compound |
| 53 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 comin | nmod |
| 54 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 mornin | punct |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | to'd | en set | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rise up | present | de sun | de mornin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mornin=Location | ||||
| 4 | yo | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | hit | present | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | yo | a comin | de mornin | tree rules | |||
| 7 | race | soul's las | for de glory dat | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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