Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 109

De squinch owl shiver like he wanter go ter bed; Ho my Riley! but de gals en de boys, Des now gittin' so dey kin sorter make a noise.

Who acts: De owl shiver, dey · What happens: go, make · To what, where: ter bed, noise

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 (De owl shiver, dey), 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	4 shiver	compound
2	squinch	squinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owl	compound
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shiver	compound
4	shiver	shiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 wanter	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanter	nsubj
7	wanter	wanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shiver	nmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	ter	ter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Riley	punct
12	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Riley	compound
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Riley	nmod:poss
14	Riley	Riley	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Riley	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 en	cc
17	de	de	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gals	amod
18	gals	gal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 en	compound
19	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Riley	conj
20	de	de	ADP	_	21 boys	case
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 en	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gittin	punct
23	Des	Des	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 gittin	compound
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 gittin	advmod
25	gittin	gittin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Riley	appos
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 gittin	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 make	advmod
28	dey	dey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	nsubj
29	kin	kin	ADP	_	30 sorter	case
30	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dey	nmod
31	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 go	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 noise	det
33	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	De owl shiver like wanter	ter bed				my Ho Riley but gals en de boys obl	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme
2	make	present	dey kin sorter	a noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

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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