Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 1
OH, de fus' news you know de day'll be a breakin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: fus news, de day · What happens: know, be · To what, where: breakin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Corn-shucking Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fus news, de day), 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 | OH | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 fus | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 OH | punct |
| 3 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 fus | compound |
| 4 | fus | fus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 news | compound |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fus | punct |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breakin | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 breakin | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 breakin | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breakin | det |
| 14 | breakin | breakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | ccomp |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 breakin | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 18 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 8 know | discourse |
| 19 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 Hey | discourse |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | fus news | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | future | de day | a breakin | 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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