Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 140
Deze de ve'y kinder footses w'at kicks up a row; Can't you jump inter de middle en make yo' gal a bow?
Who acts: ve'y footses w'at, Ca · What happens: kick up, not jump, make · To what, where: row, inter middle en, yo gal
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 (ve'y footses w'at, Ca), 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 | Deze | Deze | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ve'y | compound |
| 2 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Deze | flat:foreign |
| 3 | ve'y | ve'y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 w'at | compound |
| 4 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 footses | amod |
| 5 | footses | foots | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 w'at | compound |
| 6 | w'at | w'at | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kicks | nsubj |
| 7 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 kicks | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 row | det |
| 10 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kicks | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 jump | punct |
| 12 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 jump | nsubj |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 jump | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 jump | nsubj |
| 15 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | advcl |
| 16 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 en | compound |
| 17 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 inter | flat:foreign |
| 18 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 en | amod |
| 19 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jump | obj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kicks | parataxis |
| 21 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gal | compound |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 yo | punct |
| 23 | gal | gal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bow | det |
| 25 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 kicks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick up | present | ve'y footses w'at | a row | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent row=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not jump | present | Ca | inter middle en | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme en=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | make | present | yo gal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset gal=Beneficiary bow=Product |
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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