Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 133

Oh, swing dat yaller gal!

Who acts: you · What happens: swing · To what, where: dat

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), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 swing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dat	dat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swing	obj
5	yaller	yaller	X	Foreign=Yes	4 dat	dep
6	gal	gal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dat	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 swing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	imperative	you not said here	dat and gal					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dat=Theme

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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