Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 117
En den dey shake der feet, En greaze derse'f wid de good ham meat.
Who acts: En den dey · What happens: shake · To what, where: der feet
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 (En den 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 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 2 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dey | compound |
| 3 | dey | dey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shake | nsubj |
| 4 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 feet | amod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shake | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 derse'f | punct |
| 8 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 derse'f | compound |
| 9 | greaze | greaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 derse'f | compound |
| 10 | derse'f | derse'f | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shake | obl |
| 11 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 derse'f | amod |
| 12 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 wid | conj |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meat | amod |
| 14 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meat | compound |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 de | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | En den dey | der feet | En greaze derse'f obl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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