Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 122
Be a sendin' out de dram!
Who acts: sendin · What happens: be
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 (sendin), 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 | Be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sendin | det |
| 3 | sendin | sendin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Be | nsubj |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dram | punct |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 ' | compound:prt |
| 6 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dram | amod |
| 7 | dram | dram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sendin | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | a sendin and de dram | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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