Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 106
Dis de way ter twis' yo' knee!
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: 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 | Dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Dis | flat:foreign |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | nsubj |
| 4 | ter | ter | X | _ | 7 yo | compound |
| 5 | twis | twi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 yo | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 twis | case |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 yo | punct |
| 9 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yo | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 yo | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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