Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 20
Den de day time's a creepin' en a crawlin'-- (Hi O, Miss Sindy Ann!)
Who acts: Den day time · What happens: be · To what, where: en
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 (Den day time), 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 | Den | Den | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Den | flat |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 en | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creepin | det |
| 7 | creepin | creepin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 creepin | case |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crawlin | det |
| 11 | crawlin | crawlin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 crawlin | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
| 15 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 16 O | discourse |
| 16 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 en | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sindy | punct |
| 18 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sindy | compound |
| 19 | Sindy | Sindy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 O | appos |
| 20 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sindy | flat |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sindy | punct |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 O | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Den day time | a creepin's en | tree rules |
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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