Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, II. Camp-meeting Song *, sentence 8
De farmer gits ready w'en de lan's all plowed For ter sow dem seeds in de mornin' De sperrit may be puny en de flesh may be proud, But you better cut loose fum de scoffin' crowd, En jine dose Christuns w'at's a cryin' out loud Fer de Lord fer ter come in de mornin'!
Who acts: De, ter, De sperrit, de flesh, w'at, Fer fer ter · What happens: farm, plow, sow, be, cut, fum · To what, where: gits, lan, dem seeds, puny en, de mornin, crowd
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 (De, ter, De sperrit, de flesh), 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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | nsubj |
| 2 | farmer | farm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gits | git | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 farmer | obj |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 w'en | amod |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 lan | nmod |
| 6 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 w'en | flat |
| 7 | lan | Lan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | obl |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 lan | case |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 plowed | advmod |
| 10 | plowed | plow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lan | acl |
| 11 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 sow | mark |
| 12 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sow | nsubj |
| 13 | sow | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plowed | advcl |
| 14 | dem | dem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeds | compound |
| 15 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sow | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mornin | case |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 mornin | compound |
| 18 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 en | obl |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 mornin | punct |
| 20 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sperrit | compound |
| 21 | sperrit | sperrit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 en | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 en | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 en | cop |
| 24 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 en | amod |
| 25 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sow | obl |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 27 flesh | compound |
| 27 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 proud | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 proud | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 proud | cop |
| 30 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 en | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 better | punct |
| 32 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 better | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 better | nsubj |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 farmer | conj |
| 35 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 fum | advcl |
| 36 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 37 fum | advmod |
| 37 | fum | fum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 better | parataxis |
| 38 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 scoffin | compound |
| 39 | scoffin | scoffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 crowd | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 39 scoffin | case |
| 41 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fum | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 dose | punct |
| 43 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 dose | compound |
| 44 | jine | jine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dose | compound |
| 45 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 crowd | conj |
| 46 | Christuns | Christun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 45 dose | appos |
| 47 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cryin | nsubj |
| 48 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 cryin | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 cryin | det |
| 50 | cryin | cryin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 Christuns | acl:relcl |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 59 come | punct |
| 52 | out | out | ADV | _ | 53 loud | advmod |
| 53 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 59 come | advmod |
| 54 | Fer | Fer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 ter | compound |
| 55 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Fer | flat |
| 56 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Fer | flat |
| 57 | fer | f | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 58 ter | amod |
| 58 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 come | nsubj |
| 59 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 cryin | conj |
| 60 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 mornin | case |
| 61 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 62 mornin | compound |
| 62 | mornin | mornin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 come | obl |
| 63 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 62 mornin | punct |
| 64 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 farmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | farm | past | De | gits | 's lan ready w'en | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent git=Patient | |||
| 2 | plow | participle | lan ready w'en not said here | all property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sow | present | ter | dem seeds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | may | De sperrit | puny en | de mornin | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | may | de flesh | puny en not said here | proud property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | fum | present | de scoffin's crowd and En jine dose | loose property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | w'at | a cryin | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | come | present | Fer fer ter | de mornin | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mornin=Location |
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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