Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 131
W'en a feller comes a knockin' Des holler--Oh, shoo!
Who acts: W'en, knockin · What happens: come, shoo, holler · To what, where: holler
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 (W'en, knockin), 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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 feller | det |
| 3 | feller | feller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 W'en | appos |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knockin | det |
| 6 | knockin | knockin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holler | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 knockin | case |
| 8 | Des | des | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 holler | det |
| 9 | holler | holler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 shoo | punct |
| 11 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 shoo | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Oh | punct |
| 13 | shoo | shoo | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | W'en | a knockin's holler | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location holler=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoo | infinitive | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | holler | a knockin | nom holler «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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