Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 39
Den hit's time for ter handle dat corn a little quicker-- (Hey O!
Who acts: time · What happens: corn · To what, where: little quicker
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 (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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hit | compound |
| 2 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 hit | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corn | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dat | case |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dat | compound |
| 7 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dat | compound |
| 8 | dat | dat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | corn | corn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 quicker | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 quicker | amod |
| 12 | quicker | quicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corn | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hey | punct |
| 15 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 9 corn | discourse |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Hey | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 corn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | corn | present | Den hit's time for ter handle dat | a little quicker | 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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