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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ef | Ef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 niggers | compound |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Ef | flat |
| 3 | niggers | nigger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 watch | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 watch | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 watch | advmod |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sing | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sing | aux |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 watch | conj |
| 11 | anudder | anudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chune | compound |
| 12 | chune | chune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rise'n | punct |
| 14 | Fer | Fer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sun | compound |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fer | flat |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rise'n | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 rise'n | aux |
| 18 | rise'n | rise'n | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 watch | conj |
| 19 | ketch | ketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ef | compound |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ef | nsubj |
| 21 | ef | ef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rise'n | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 mighty | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mighty | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 mighty | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 mighty | cop |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ef | acl:relcl |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 mighty | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 gittin | punct |
| 29 | En | En | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 stars | compound |
| 30 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 En | flat |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gittin | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 gittin | cop |
| 33 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watch | parataxis |
| 34 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 gittin | punct |
| 35 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 gittin | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 en | punct |
| 37 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 settin | nsubj |
| 38 | de | de | ADP | _ | 41 coon | case |
| 39 | ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 coon | amod |
| 40 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 coon | compound |
| 41 | coon | coon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 en | nmod |
| 42 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 settin | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 settin | det |
| 44 | settin | settin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gittin | conj |
| 45 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 settin | punct |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 vine | case |
| 47 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 vine | amod |
| 48 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 vine | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 grape | punct |
| 50 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 settin | nmod |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 watchin | det |
| 52 | watchin | watchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 fer | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 52 watchin | case |
| 54 | fer | fer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 moon | compound |
| 55 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 fer | appos |
| 56 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 vine | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not watch | present · do-support | Ef niggers | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | future | you | anudder chune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise'n | future | Fer sun | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ef | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is | present · do-support | you | ketch ef not said here | mighty, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | present | En stars | gittin and a settin | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | En stars not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | is a | present | en de ole gray coon | a settin | de grape vine fer moon | 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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