Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 36
W'en you see Mister Moon turnin' pale en gittin' sicker-- (Hey O!
Who acts: you · What happens: see · To what, where: W'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 (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 | W'en | W'en | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mister | Mister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Moon | compound |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turnin | compound |
| 6 | turnin | turnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 turnin | punct |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gittin | amod |
| 9 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gittin | compound |
| 10 | gittin | gittin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turnin | appos |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 gittin | punct |
| 12 | sicker | sick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 turnin | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 15 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 3 see | discourse |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Hey | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | W'en | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turnin=Stimulus |
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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