Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 62
En he tar off de hide, en he chaws um en he gnyaws um-- (Hey O!
Who acts: ai · What happens: tar off, chaw, gnyaw · To what, where: 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 (ai), 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 | En | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tar | obl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tar | nsubj |
| 3 | tar | tar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 tar | compound:prt |
| 5 | de | de | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hide | det |
| 6 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tar | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 en | punct |
| 8 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tar | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 chaws | nsubj |
| 10 | chaws | chaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 en | acl:relcl |
| 11 | um | um | ADP | _ | 12 en | case |
| 12 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chaws | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gnyaws | nsubj |
| 14 | gnyaws | gnyaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 en | acl:relcl |
| 15 | um | um | ADV | _ | 14 gnyaws | advmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hey | punct |
| 18 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 3 tar | discourse |
| 19 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 Hey | discourse |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 tar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tar off | present | ai | En | en obl | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Destination | |||
| 2 | chaw | present | ai | en not said here | um en | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gnyaw | present | ai | en not said here | 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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