Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 4
*1) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a bakin', (Hey O!
Who acts: de fier · What happens: be · To what, where: burnin 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 (de fier), 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 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 en | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fier | det |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 fier | punct |
| 6 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fier | compound |
| 7 | fier | fier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 en | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 en | det |
| 10 | burnin | burnin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | compound |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
| 14 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 cake | compound |
| 15 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cake | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ash | punct |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 en | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bakin | det |
| 19 | bakin | bakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cake | conj |
| 20 | ', | ', | PART | _ | 19 bakin | dep |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Hey | punct |
| 22 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 19 bakin | discourse |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 22 Hey | discourse |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | a de fier | a burnin en and de ash cake and a bakin | 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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