Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 68
Oh, work on, boys! give doze shucks a mighty wringin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: boys, doze · What happens: work on, give, shuck · To what, where: mighty wringin
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 (boys, doze), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 work | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 work | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 boys | punct |
| 6 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 boys | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | doze | doze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shucks | nsubj |
| 10 | shucks | shuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wringin | det |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wringin | amod |
| 13 | wringin | wringin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shucks | obj |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wringin | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hey | punct |
| 17 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 Hey | discourse |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work on | infinitive | boys not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | boys | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shuck | present | doze | a mighty wringin | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wringin=Source |
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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