Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 51
No use for ter come a flingin' un yo' "can't's" in-- (Hey O!
Who acts: use · What happens: come · To what, where: un yo
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 (use), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 use | det |
| 2 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 ter | case |
| 4 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flingin | det |
| 7 | flingin | flingin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yo | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 flingin | case |
| 9 | un | un | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yo | compound |
| 10 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 yo | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ca | punct |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | advcl |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 ca | advmod |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 ca | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ca | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ca | compound:prt |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hey | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hey | punct |
| 20 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 5 come | discourse |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 20 Hey | discourse |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | no use for ter | a flingin's un yo | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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