Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 67
En she'll ketch up wid dus 'fo' we ever git dis corn in-- (Oh, go 'way, Sindy Ann!)
Who acts: En, we, git dis corn · What happens: ketch up, corn, go · To what, where: wid dus, way
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 (En, we, git dis corn), 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 | 4 ketch | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ketch | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ketch | aux |
| 4 | ketch | ketch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ketch | compound:prt |
| 6 | wid | wid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dus | amod |
| 7 | dus | dus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketch | obj |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dus | punct |
| 9 | fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 corn | mark |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 corn | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 corn | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 corn | advmod |
| 13 | git | git | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | compound |
| 14 | dis | dis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corn | compound |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ketch | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 21 go | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 corn | acl |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Sindy | punct |
| 25 | Sindy | Sindy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 way | appos |
| 26 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sindy | flat |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketch | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ketch up | future | En | wid dus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | corn | we | ever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | git dis corn not said here | way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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