Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 10
Better git up, nigger, en give yo'se'f a shakin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)
Who acts: Better git · What happens: give · To what, where: en, yo'se'f
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 (Better git), 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 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 git | amod |
| 2 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | nsubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 git | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nigger | punct |
| 5 | nigger | nigger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 git | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 en | punct |
| 7 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | yo'se'f | yo'se'f | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shakin | det |
| 11 | shakin | shakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 shakin | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 15 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 16 O | discourse |
| 16 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sindy | punct |
| 18 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sindy | compound |
| 19 | Sindy | Sindy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 O | conj |
| 20 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sindy | flat |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Better git and nigger | en | yo'se'f | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yo'se'f=Recipient shakin=Theme |
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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