Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 142
De boys ain't a gwine W'en you cry boo hoo-- Hop light, ladies, Oh, Miss Loo!
Who acts: you · What happens: cry · To what, where: boo hoo
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 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boys | compound |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ai | nsubj |
| 3 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 gwine | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 gwine | det |
| 6 | gwine | gwine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | obj |
| 7 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gwine | appos |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cry | nsubj |
| 9 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gwine | acl:relcl |
| 10 | boo | boo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoo | compound |
| 11 | hoo | hoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cry | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
| 13 | Hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 light | compound |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoo | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ladies | punct |
| 16 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 light | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Loo | punct |
| 18 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 Loo | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Oh | punct |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Loo | compound |
| 21 | Loo | Loo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ai | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ai | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | you | boo hoo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoo=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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