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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 130

Ef you niggers don't watch, you'll sing anudder chune, Fer de sun'll rise'n ketch you ef you don't be mighty soon; En de stars is gittin' paler, en de ole gray coon Is a settin' in de grape-vine a watchin' fer de moon.

Who acts: Ef niggers, you, Fer sun, En stars, en · What happens: not watch, sing, rise'n, ef, not be, be · To what, where: anudder chune, ketch ef, gittin, settin, de grape vine

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 (Ef niggers, you, Fer sun, En stars), 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

compoundflatnsubjauxadvmodpunctnsubjauxconjcompoundobjpunctcompoundflatnsubjauxconjcompoundnsubjobjnsubjauxadvmodcopacl:relcladvmodpunctcompoundflatnsubjcopparataxispunctconjpunctnsubjcaseamodcompoundnmodcopdetconjpunctcaseamodcompoundpunctnmoddetnmod:posscasecompoundapposnmodpunctrootEfPROPNyouPRONniggersNOUNdoAUXn'tPARTwatchVERB,PUNCTyouPRON'llAUXsingVERBanudderNOUNchuneNOUN,PUNCTFerPROPNdePROPNsunNOUN'llAUXrise'nVERBketchNOUNyouPRONefNOUNyouPRONdoAUXn'tPARTbeAUXmightyADJsoonADV;PUNCTEnPROPNdePROPNstarsNOUNisAUXgittinNOUN'PUNCTpalerADJ,PUNCTenNOUNdeADPoleADJgrayNOUNcoonNOUNIsAUXaDETsettinNOUN'PUNCTinADPdeADJgrapeNOUN-PUNCTvineNOUNaDETwatchinNOUN'PARTferNOUNdePROPNmoonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EfEfPROPNNumber=Sing3 niggerscompound
2youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs1 Efflat
3niggersniggerNOUNNumber=Plur6 watchnsubj
4dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 watchaux
5n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg6 watchadvmod
6watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 singpunct
8youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs10 singnsubj
9'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin10 singaux
10singsingVERBVerbForm=Inf6 watchconj
11anudderanudderNOUNNumber=Sing12 chunecompound
12chunechuneNOUNNumber=Sing10 singobj
13,,PUNCT_18 rise'npunct
14FerFerPROPNNumber=Sing16 suncompound
15dedePROPNNumber=Sing14 Ferflat
16sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing18 rise'nnsubj
17'llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 rise'naux
18rise'nrise'nVERBVerbForm=Inf6 watchconj
19ketchketchNOUNNumber=Sing21 efcompound
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 efnsubj
21efefNOUNNumber=Sing18 rise'nobj
22youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs26 mightynsubj
23dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 mightyaux
24n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 mightyadvmod
25bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf26 mightycop
26mightymightyADJDegree=Pos21 efacl:relcl
27soonsoonADVDegree=Pos26 mightyadvmod
28;;PUNCT_33 gittinpunct
29EnEnPROPNNumber=Sing31 starscompound
30dedePROPNNumber=Sing29 Enflat
31starsstarNOUNNumber=Plur33 gittinnsubj
32isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 gittincop
33gittingittinNOUNNumber=Sing6 watchparataxis
34''PUNCT_33 gittinpunct
35palerpaleADJDegree=Cmp33 gittinconj
36,,PUNCT_37 enpunct
37enenNOUNNumber=Sing44 settinnsubj
38dedeADP_41 cooncase
39oleoleADJDegree=Pos41 coonamod
40graygrayNOUNNumber=Sing41 cooncompound
41cooncoonNOUNNumber=Sing37 ennmod
42IsbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin44 settincop
43aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art44 settindet
44settinsettinNOUNNumber=Sing33 gittinconj
45''PUNCT_44 settinpunct
46ininADP_50 vinecase
47dedeADJDegree=Pos50 vineamod
48grapegrapeNOUNNumber=Sing50 vinecompound
49--PUNCT_48 grapepunct
50vinevineNOUNNumber=Sing44 settinnmod
51aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art52 watchindet
52watchinwatchinNOUNNumber=Sing54 fernmod:poss
53''sPART_52 watchincase
54ferferNOUNNumber=Sing56 mooncompound
55dedePROPNNumber=Sing54 ferappos
56moonmoonNOUNNumber=Sing50 vinenmod
57..PUNCT_6 watchpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not watchpresent · do-supportEf niggersvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2sing speech: expressfutureyouanudder chunevn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chune=Theme
3rise'nfutureFer suntree rules
4efyoutree rules
5not ispresent · do-supportyouketch ef not said heremighty, soon propertytree rules
6is apresentEn starsgittin and a settintree rules
7beEn stars not said heretree rules
8is apresenten de ole gray coona settinde grape vine fer moontree 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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