Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 115
In de happy Chris'mus time De niggers shake der cloze a huntin' for a dime.
Who acts: De niggers · What happens: shake · To what, where: der cloze
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 niggers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 4 | Chris'mus | Chris'mus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obl |
| 6 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 niggers | compound |
| 7 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shake | nsubj |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cloze | amod |
| 10 | cloze | cloze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 huntin | det |
| 12 | huntin | huntin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 huntin | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 dime | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dime | det |
| 16 | dime | dime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | De niggers | der cloze | time | for a dime | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent cloze=Theme huntin=Destination |
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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