Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 14
Oh, honey! w'en you year de rain-crow a callin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: you, de · What happens: year, crow · To what, where: callin
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, de), 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 honey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 w'en | compound |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 honey | punct |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 year | compound |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 year | nsubj |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crow | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 crow | nsubj |
| 9 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crow | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rain | punct |
| 11 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 callin | det |
| 13 | callin | callin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crow | obj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 callin | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 17 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 11 crow | discourse |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 crow | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | year | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | crow | infinitive | de | a callin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent callin=Topic |
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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