Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Corn-shucking Song, sentence 7
An' de ho'n 'll be a hollerin' en de boss 'll be a wakin'-- (Hey O!
Who acts: de ho'n, de boss · What happens: be · To what, where: en, wakin
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 ho'n, de boss), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ho'n | det |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho'n | punct |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ho'n | compound |
| 4 | ho'n | ho'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | nsubj |
| 5 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 en | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 en | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 en | det |
| 8 | hollerin | hollerin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 hollerin | case |
| 10 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 boss | compound |
| 12 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wakin | nsubj |
| 13 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wakin | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wakin | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wakin | det |
| 16 | wakin | wakin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 en | parataxis |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 wakin | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hey | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hey | punct |
| 20 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 10 en | conj |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 20 Hey | discourse |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 en | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | a de ho'n | hollerin's en | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | de boss | a wakin | 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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