Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 126
Stop yo' humpin' up yo' sho'lders do!
Who acts: you, sho'lders · What happens: stop up, do · To what, where: yo
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 (you, sho'lders), 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 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stop | obj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 humpin | punct |
| 4 | humpin | humpin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yo | appos |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 humpin | punct |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Stop | compound:prt |
| 7 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stop | parataxis |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | sho'lders | sho'lder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 yo | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop up | imperative | you not said here | yo | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yo=Destination | ||||
| 2 | do | present | sho'lders | yo not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yo=Eventuality |
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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