Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 33
Oh, honey, w'en you year dat roan mule whicker-- (Hey O!
Who acts: honey · What happens: be · To what, where: dat roan mule
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 (honey), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 honey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 w'en | punct |
| 5 | w'en | w'en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 honey | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 mule | nsubj |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | nsubj |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | compound |
| 9 | roan | roan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mule | compound |
| 10 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | whicker | whicker | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mule | cop |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hey | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hey | punct |
| 14 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 10 mule | conj |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 14 Hey | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 mule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | honey and w'en | dat roan mule | 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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