Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 141
Look at dat merlatter man A follerin' up Sue; Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!
Who acts: you · What happens: look · To what, where: Hop light
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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 3 | dat | that | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | merlatter | merlatt | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 follerin | det |
| 7 | follerin | follerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | appos |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 follerin | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 Sue | case |
| 10 | Sue | Sue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 follerin | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 12 | Hop | Hop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 light | compound |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ladies | punct |
| 15 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 light | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Loo | punct |
| 17 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 20 Loo | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Oh | punct |
| 19 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Loo | compound |
| 20 | Loo | Loo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | Hop light and ladies | at that merlatter man; Miss Loo obl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at man=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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