Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 102
Ho my Riley! better shet dat do'-- De w'ite folks 'll bleeve we er t'arin up de flo'.
Who acts: shet dat, w'ite folks, we · What happens: do, bleeve, er · To what, where: t'arin
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 (shet dat, w'ite folks, we), 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 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Riley | compound |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Riley | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Riley | Riley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Riley | punct |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 shet | amod |
| 6 | shet | shet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | compound |
| 7 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 bleeve | punct |
| 11 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 w'ite | compound |
| 12 | w'ite | w'ite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 folks | compound |
| 13 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bleeve | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bleeve | aux |
| 15 | bleeve | bleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dat | conj |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 er | nsubj |
| 17 | er | er | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bleeve | acl:relcl |
| 18 | t'arin | t'arin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 flo | advmod |
| 20 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 flo | compound |
| 21 | flo | flo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 er | obl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 flo | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | my Ho Riley's shet dat and bleeve not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bleeve | future | w'ite folks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | er | present | we | t'arin | de flo obl | 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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