Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 129
Hit takes a heap er scrougin' For ter git you thoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!
Who acts: Hit, you · What happens: take, thoo · To what, where: heap
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 (Hit, you), 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 | Hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heap | det |
| 4 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 5 | er | er | PUNCT | _ | 6 scrougin | punct |
| 6 | scrougin | scrougin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heap | appos |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 scrougin | punct |
| 8 | For | for | ADP | _ | 10 git | case |
| 9 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 git | compound |
| 10 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thoo | compound |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thoo | nsubj |
| 12 | thoo | thoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 14 | Hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | compound |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thoo | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ladies | punct |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 light | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Loo | punct |
| 19 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 22 Loo | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 21 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Loo | compound |
| 22 | Loo | Loo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | parataxis |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Hit | a heap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thoo | you | tree rules |
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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