Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 21

For de los' ell en yard *2 is a huntin' for de mornin', (Hi O! git long! go 'way!)

Who acts: git · What happens: be, go · To what, where: huntin, way

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 (git), 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	For	for	ADP	_	7 yard	case
2	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 los	compound
3	los	Los	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yard	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 los	case
5	ell	ell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 en	compound
6	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yard	compound
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 huntin	obl
8	*	*	PUNCT	_	7 yard	punct
9	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 *	flat
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 huntin	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 huntin	det
12	huntin	huntin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 huntin	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 mornin	case
15	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	16 mornin	compound
16	mornin	mornin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 huntin	nmod
17	',	',	PUNCT	_	16 mornin	punct
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 git	punct
19	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	22 git	discourse
20	O	o	INTJ	_	22 git	discourse
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 git	punct
22	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mornin	appos
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 git	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 git	punct
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 git	acl
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	27 way	punct
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 git	punct
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 git	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a huntin				for de los's en yard; for de mornin	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	git not said here	way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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